[Sca-cooks] Apicius birds stuff with olives

[Stefan li Rous]

>     F&B: ANOTHER WAY TO COOK A BIRD.  Stuff the bird with chopped fresh
> olives, sew it up, and boil.  Afterwards, remove the cooked olives

Would these be treated olives? Or would these be the raw, untreated 
olives straight from the trees? From earlier discussions here, raw 
olives are bitter and they need to be treated in one of several ways. 
Wouldn't this same, unwanted flavor be transferred to the bird if the 
raw olives were used?

I was also thinking that this would take a large amount of olives which 
would then be thrown out. But I was thinking of chickens and for 
smaller birds this makes more sense since the body cavity volume to 
meat would be much less.

Stefan
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