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Cold Sage Chicken

Goodman p. 277/23

Take your chicken and quarter it and set to cook in salt and water, then set it to get cold. Then bray ginger, cinnamon powder, grain of Paradise, and cloves and bray them well without straining; then bray bread dipped in chicken broth, parsley (the most), sage, and a little saffron in the leaf and color it green and run it through a strainer (and some there be that run therewith yolk of egg) and moisten with good vinegar, and when it is moistened set it on your chicken and with and on the top of the aforesaid chicken set hard boiled eggs cut into quarters and pour your sauce over it all.

1/2 chicken, quartered
3 slices of bread dipped in chicken broth
4 T parsley
3 leaves sage
4 threads saffron
2 egg yolks
1/4 t ginger
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 t grains of paradise
less than 1/8 t cloves
4 hard boiled eggs