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Food Info - Poultry: How to Cut Up Chicken

Source of Recipe

The Household Searchlight
Dress chicken. Wash carefully. Cut off neck. Remove wings by cutting through wing joint close to body. Fold wings by putting tip back of shoulder joint. Remove legs by cutting through skin close to body. Bend the legs back to separate the joints. Cut through the flesh. Separate thigh from drum stick. Separate breast from back by cutting through the skin just below the breast bone. Insert the knife beneath the edges of the breast bone. Follow up the ribs to the shoulder. Disjoint. Cut through the flesh. Bend the back of chicken to break the back bone. Cut into back and rib sections. Cut through breast of chicken, separating the portion containing the wish-bone from the remainder. Cut remainder of breast in 2 portions if desired.