This is an excerpt from Le Viandier de Taillevent
(France, ca. 1380 - James Prescott, trans.)
The original source can be found at
James Prescott's website
Chicken hotchpotch. Take your chicken, dismember it, and fry it lightly in lard. Take a bit of grilled bread and some chicken livers, steep in wine and beef broth, and boil with your meat. Grind ginger, cassia and grains_of_paradise, and steep in verjuice. It should be clearish black and not too [thick?].
Other versions of this recipe:
Chykens In Hocchee (Forme of Cury)
Chykens in hocche (Fourme of Curye [Rylands MS 7])