Meaning of spatchcock | Babel Free

Definitions

Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.

also, attributive

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Examples

“Spatch cock, abbreviation of a diſpatch cock, an Iriſh diſh upon any ſudden occaſion. It is a hen juſt killed from the rooſt, or yard, and immediately ſkinned, ſplit, and broiled.”

“He then slew it [a chicken], dipped the corpse in boiling water to loosen the feathers, which he stripped off in masses, cut⟳ through its breast longitudinally, and with the aid of an iron⟳ plate, placed over a charcoal fire, proceeded to make⟳ a spatchcock, or as it is more popularly termed, a "sudden death."”

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