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(Of course, quicksilver (mercury) is poisonous and must never be handled, let alone used in cooking.)

SINGING CHICKEN, GOSLING OR PIGLET
The Vivendier mid-fifteenth century, north-eastern France

To Make that Chicken Sing when it is dead and roasted, whether on the spit or in the platter. Take the neck of your chicken and bind it at one end and fill it with quicksilver and ground sulphur, filling until it is roughly half full; then bind the other end, not too tightly. When it is quite hot, and when the mixture heats up, the air that is trying to escape will make the chicken’s sound. The same can be done with a gosling, with a piglet and with any other birds. And if it does not cry loudly enough, tie the two ends more tightly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning#Elemental_mercury

>>13252588
"cold" herbs seem to be:
>Eucalyptol
sage, bay leaves, tea, rosemary
>Carvone
dill, mint, caraway