ek with Oatmeal scalded in Milk; the second
with Rice and Sugar in Milk. In a fortnight they will be prodigiously fat.
It is good to give them sometimes a little Gravel, or powder of Glass, to
cleanse their maws, and give them appetite.

If you put a little bran with their meat, it will keep their maws clean,
and give them appetite.

ANOTHER EXCELLENT WAY TO FATTEN CHICKEN

Boil white bread in Milk, as though you were to eat it; but make it thick
of the bread, which is sliced into it in thin slices, not so thick as if it
were to make a pudding; but so, that when the bread is eaten out, there may
some liquid milk remain for the Chicken to drink; or that at first you may
take up some liquid Milk in a spoon, if you industriously avoid the bread:
sweeten very well this potage with good Kitchin Sugar of six pence a pound;
so put it into the trough before them. Put there but a little at a time,
(two or three spoonfuls) that you may not clog them, and feed them five
times a day, between their wakening in the morning, and their roosting at
night. Give them no other drink; the Milk that remaineth after they have
eaten the bread, is sufficient; neither give them Gravel, or ought else.
Keep their Coops very clean, as also their troughs, cleansing them very
well every morning. To half a dozen very little Chickens, little bigger
then black-birds, an ordinary porenger full every day may serve. And in
eight days they will be prodigiously fat, one peny loaf, and less then two
quarts of Milk and about half a pound of Sugar will serve little ones the
whole time. Bigger Chickens will require more, and two or three days longer
time. When any of them are at their height of fat, you must eat them; for
if they live longer, they will fall back, and grow lean. Be sure to make
their potage very sweet.

AN EXCELLENT WAY TO CRAM CHICKEN

Stone a pound of Raisins of the Sun, and beat them in a Mortar to Pulp;
pour a quart of Milk upon them, and let them soak so all night. Next
morning stir them well together, and put to them so much Crums of Grated
stale white bread as to bring it to a soft paste, work all well together,
and lay it in the trough before the Chicken (which must not be above six in
a pen, and keep it very clean) and let a candle be by them all night. The
delight of this meat will make them eat continually; and they will be so
fat (when they are but of the bigness of a Black-bird) that they will not
be able to stand, but lie do