SC - Swan!
linneah at erols.com
linneah at erols.com
Wed Apr 16 19:47:15 PDT 1997
> Its DUCK season!...No RABBIT season!.....Duck season!!.....RABBIT season!!
>
> Oh what the hell......SWAN season!!!!!
> Check with your local council first, I'm still a bit iffy as to whether
> they are legal or not.
>
> How to make a swan look decent.........Well, you stuff them for one thing.
> Otherwise they cook up scrawnier than before, which is NOT a good look.
> The necks were a problem. We thought about sticking wire, not period, but
> practical down it to support it, but the weight of the head was almost too
> much. We ended up cooking it with the neck sort of curled into a
> manageable position and thenstraightened it out a bit. (Hindsight, arrange
> it first) The most practical idea was to coat it with marchepane (don't
> know if I spelt it right, but cooked swan doesn't like being co-operative
> with feastocrats. We ended up serving the neck curled around the body when
> the wire finally decided that it wanted to bend. and didn't do much else.
>
> We probable could have used the necks to make a soup stock, I'll keep it
> in mind for next time I guess. Noone really liked it so lots of leftovers.
>
> -Sianan
I have a reproduction of a wonderful painting by a Dutch painter whose name
escapes me, that is just out of period. It's entitled "The Threatened Swan" and
depicts a swan with wings outspread, neck arched and hissing. Could it be that
he was being eyed for that night's entree?
Playfully,
Linneah
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