Roast Chicken

chicken

1 each chicken **
1 each *bread stuffing recipe
1 single salt & pepper
1 single butter
1 cup sour cream

** 4 to 5 lb roasting chicken Thoroughly clean and wash the chicken. Rub inside and out with salt and pepper mixed together. Then rub the inside of the chicken generously with butter. Fill with Bread Stuffing. Place in roasting pan in a hot oven (400-F) and roast about 2 hours, basting about every 15 minutes with spoonfuls of the sour cream. If a thicker gravy is desired, 1 Tbsp flour can be added to the liquid in pan after chicken is roasted. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.