Poulet de Grains à la Russe (Spit-Roast Spring Chicken, Russian Style)

Ingredients

• 1 poulet de grains (spring chicken)
• Fine lardons
• Anchovy fillets
• Fine sausage forcemeat
• Melted bacon fat (lard fondu)
• Sauce Rémoulade

Instructions

1. Truss the chicken, then dip the breast for 5 minutes in boiling water to stiffen the flesh and the skin.
2. Lard it with fine lardons and with anchovy fillets.
3. Fill it with a fine truffled sausage forcemeat.
4. Roast it on the spit.
5. When the cooking is complete, baste it at the last moment, using a special cornet of burning melted bacon fat let fall onto the chicken so that it browns the skin.
6. Serve a sauce Rémoulade separately.