Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.
Sylvia Townsend Warner, David Garnett, Richard Garnett (1994). “Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters”, Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
