Spread a small baking-dish all over with rashers of bacon; stick an onion with a dozen cloves; out a fowl in pieces, and rub it well with pepper and salt; put the onion in the middle of the dish, and place the fowl over it. Have some rice boiled tender to fill the dish. Fill up with, gravy. Cover with a water and flour paste; bake about an hour; take off the crust, and garnish with hard-boiled eggs cut in quarters. and sliced onions.
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