Roast Chicken On Salt

This is an old family recipe from Russia:

1. Stuff a plucked and dressed chicken with a quartered lemon, four peeled cloves of garlic and a couple of sprigs of fresh rosemary.
2. Bind the chicken ready for roasting.
3. Fill a baking tray with 1kg salt and place the chicken on top.
4. Roast for 90 minutes at 190 centigrade.

The flesh should be moist, the skin crisp.