[Sca-cooks] pigeons and small birds

[Huette von Ahrens]

Okay Petru, what are umbrella nuts?

Huette

--- Patrick Levesque <pleves1 at po-box.mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> Will doves do?
> 
> >From the Romanian cookbook (which is, of
> course, in the Florilegium :-))
> 
> Take young doves or young chicken, and boil in
> this manner: first grill
> them, stud with small morsels of lard, not too
> well. If they are as small as
> quails, leave whole; if they are large cut in
> four morsels, and put in the
> pot. Then add fresh butter or sour cream, salt,
> nutmeg, clove, cinnamon and
> lots of pepper, umbrella nuts and pistachios
> well ground, or almonds,
> whatever you have, and 5-6 egg yolks, beaten
> with a little lemon juice, to
> be slightly sour, and meat stock to cover by
> 3-4 fingers, and boil, often
> mixing with a spoon until the juice thickens
> and they are cooked. Then when
> you serve, sprinkle with white sugar and
> crushed cinnamon.
> 
> Another dish, Have young doves or chickens and
> stuff, and after stew them
> with salted pork tongue and old (i.e. not
> green) whole small onions, or stew
> with kohlrabi. 
> 
> Petru


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