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 and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters (ed. Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1994) - ISBN: 9781856193412