Roast Chicken with Meyer Lemons

Directions

1. Roast Chicken
2. Remove inner "parts" and pull off large glob of fat near opening of the cavity. Wash and dry the chicken, salt and pepper inside cavity. Place the halved garlic head and one lemon,also cut in half, inside the chicken. Tie legs together with butcher's string and fold wings under. Stick thyme bouquet half in/half out of chicken cavity.
3. Quarter remaining three lemons and place in roasting pan close to chicken. Rub some olive oil over top of chicken and toss lemons with rest of oil. Salt and pepper chicken and lemons. Add wine to pan.
4. Roast at 375 degrees for 2 hours.Remove the chicken from the pan and allow chicken to rest, covered, while you make the sauce (recipe below).

1. Sauce for Chicken
2. Remove lemons from pan and reserve, keeping warm. Place roasting pan and its juices back on the stove and turn on the two burners it covers to low heat. (Be sure to add any juices collected under the resting chicken. A big chicken usually provides sufficient juices. You can add a little stock if needed.)
3. Mash the softened butter into the flour and whisk into the pan juices which are simmering. Sauce will thicken. Add cream and cognac. Taste and correct seasoning.
4. Remove and discard thyme bouquet. Carve and serve chicken on a warmed platter, along with the roasted lemons. Drizzle sauce over all or serve separately in a warmed pitcher.