[Sca-cooks] pigeons and small birds

[Stefan li Rous]

Petru replied to me with:
> > From the Romanian cookbook (which is, of course, in the Florilegium
> > :-))
Thank you for letting me know. This way it doesn't give saved twice, 
which I was about to do. :-)

I do have one question, though.
> Take young goves 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 crea, salt, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon
> and
> lots of pepper, umbrella nuts and pistachios well ground, or 
> almonds,...

Sounds kind of interesting. But what are "umbrella" nuts?

Stefan
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