Drawing

Lay the plucked bird breast down and feel for the place where the neck joins the shoulders. Cut through the skin about two inches above this point. Put your knife in under the skin and cut through the neck where it joins the shoulders. Draw out the neck, leaving a flap of skin for covering the hole. Carefully pull out the crop, without breaking it (it is a bag full of grit and grains), and the windpipe.

Keep the neck for the giblet stock, and throw the head away. Put your finger into the hole between the shoulders and run it all round the inside of the bird, as if it was a knife loosening a pudding in a basin.