Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
If asparagus is in season, it will be much better than parsley both for
the stuffing and sauce. It must first be boiled. Chop the green heads
for the stuffing, and cut them in two for the melted butter. Have
cranberry-sauce on the table.
Pigeons may be split and broiled, like chickens; also stewed or
fricasseed.
They are very good stewed with slices of cold ham and green peas,
serving up all in the same dish.
PIGEON PIE.
Take four pigeons, and pick and clean them very nicely, Season them
with pepper and salt, and put inside of every one a large piece of
butter and the yolk of a hard-boiled egg. Have ready a good paste,
allowing a pound of butter to two pounds of sifted flour. Roll it out
rather thick, and line with it the bottom and sides of a large deep
dish. Put in the pigeons, and lay on the top some bits of butter rolled
in flour. Pour in nearly enough of water to fill the dish. Cover the
pie with a lid of paste rolled out thick, and nicely notched, and
ornamented with paste leaves and flowers.
You may make a similar pie of pheasants, partridges, or grouse.
TO ROAST PHEASANTS, PARTRIDGES, QUAILS, OR GROUSE.
Pick and draw the birds immediately after they are brought in. Before
you roast them, fill the inside with pieces of a fine ripe orange,
leaving out the rind and seeds. Or stuff them with grated cold ham,
mixed with bread-crumbs, butter, and a little yolk of egg. Lard them
with small slips of the fat of bacon drawn through the flesh with a
larding needle, Roast them before a clear fire.
Make a fine rich gravy of the trimmings of meat or poultry, stewed in a
little water, and thickened with a spoonful of browned flour. Strain
it, and set it on the fire again, having added half a pint of claret,
and the juice of two large oranges. Simmer it for a few minutes, pour
some of it into the dish with the game, and serve the remainder in a
boat.
If you stuff them with force-meat, you may, instead of larding, brush
them all over with beaten yolk of egg, and then cover them, with
bread-crumbs grated finely and sifted.
ANOTHER WAY TO ROAST PHEASANTS, PARTRIDGES, ETC.
Chop some fine raw oysters, omitting the hard part; mix them with salt,
and nutmeg, and add some beaten yolk of egg to bind the other
ingredients. Cut some very thin slices of cold ham or bacon, and cover
the birds with them; then wrap them closely in sheets of white paper
well buttered, put them on the spit, and roast them before a clear
fire.
Send them to table with oyster-sauce in a boat.
Pies may be made of any of these birds in the same manner as a pigeon
pie.
TO ROAST SNIPES, WOODCOCKS, OR PLOVERS.
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