Broiled Fowl and Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

• A large fowl
• seasoning
• to taste
• of pepper and salt
• 2 handfuls of button mushrooms
• 1 slice lean ham
• 3/4 pint thickened gravy
• 1 teaspoonful lemon-juice
• 1/2 teaspoonful pounded sugar

Instructions

1. Cut the fowl into quarters, roast it until three-parts done, and keep it well basted whilst at the fire.
2. Take the fowl up, broil it for a few minutes over a clear fire, and season it with pepper and salt.
3. Have ready some mushroom sauce made in the following manner.
4. Put the mushrooms into a stewpan with a small piece of butter, the ham, a seasoning of pepper and salt, and the gravy;
5. simmer these gently for 1/2 hour, add the lemon-juice and sugar, dish the fowl, and pour the sauce round them.