This is always neces-sary, especially if the bird is not very young, as then there are often hairs nearly an inch long all over the skin. In other cases there is generally down. Hold the bird by the neck; then, with a piece of twisted brown paper, singe it all over quickly, not holding the flame long enough in one place to scorch the skin.

No. 2. - Loosening the internal organs through the neck of the bird

A wax taper is very handy to use, or the bird may be twisted about over one of the gas-burners of the stove. Singeing is not done to get rid of feathers left in through careless plucking: for this it is useless.