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- Welcome.
I'm Julia Child.
Today, we're going to make a holiday feast,
or le fete d'holiday,
and we're going to start with half-boned chicken,
or poulard demi de sauce.
You need a fine, fat roasting chicken like this one.
And first remove the giblets,
and you really should save the giblets.
They make a fine stock for soup,
or you can save the liver and fry it up with some onions
for a little snack,
or if you have a number of livers,
you can make a lovely liver pate
or perhaps a delicious liverwurst
which you can spread on a cracker,
a Ritz cracker, or Sa-hal-tine cracker
or on bread, a rye bread,
or pumper--pumpernickel bread,
or if you're celebrating the Jewish holidays,
you can make a chopped liver
and shape it into the bust of a friend,
someone who's getting married or bar mitzvahed.
Is that it?
Am I pronouncing it right?
Bar mitzvah?
I hope so.
Or if you have a pet cat or a dog, they love liver.
Save the liver.
Don't throw it away.
I hope I've made my point.
Don't throw the liver away.
Now where was I?
Oh, yes.
Poulard demi de sauce.
Now, after we remove the giblets and save the you-know-what--
did I mention liverwurst?
You can spread it on crackers.
Oh, well, anyway, it's time to bone the chicken now.
For this, you need a very sharp knife.
Can't do nothing without a sharp knife.
And you place the chicken on its stomach
and cut along the backbone
to the poult's nose like so--crap.
Oh.
Now I've done it.
I've cut the dickens out of my finger.
Well, I'm glad in a way this happened.
You know, accidents do occur
from time to time in the kitchen.
We've never really discussed what to do.
First you must stop the bleeding.
The best way is with direct pressure on the apron like so.
Oh!
You ought to raise your hand over your head
so the blood has to be pumped all the way up.
Oh, the apron doesn't seem to be working,
so I'd recommend, uh, natural coagulants
such as chicken liver.
Another reason not to throw away the liver.
Oh, oh, God, it's throbbing.
A tourniquet-- that's it, yes,
a tourniquet can be made
of cheesecloth and a chicken bone.
Find a pressure point between the heart and the wound--
in this case the wrist-- and cut off the blood.
Oh, this is a last resort, however,
'cause you could lose your hand if you tighten it too much.
Oh!
You're too woozy to tie the tourniquet,
try to call for emergency help.
There's not much time left.
Now, every kitchen should have the emergency number
written on it somewhere.
Oh, this one doesn't.
911.
Uh...
Oh, this phone is a prop.
It doesn't work.
Oh, that's a shame,
because I'm remembering a time when I was a little girl
and I had a dog named Admiral.
I used to give him liver,
and my mother gave me a doll.
Why are you all spinning?
Oh, I think I'm going to go to sleep now.
Bon appetit.
Save the liver.
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