Cooking Chickens for Food?

For most of history right up until early 20th century you would only ever really eat a chicken when it had exhausted every other function. Eating chicken meat was a very rare and if you did you'd either be eating spent hens who were basically exhausted girls who couldn't lay anymore. When we started using them for food, there wouldn't have been two for five in co-op in Rome. There's a brilliant recipe from a 17th century called a tough old foul exploded. And the other thing I do is that you put the bird in a pattern you had to kind of cook it for something like 12 hours before it began palatable. But essentially and that's what cockreliki