Roast Pheasants

The modern cook · Charles Elmé Francatelli · 1846
Source
The modern cook
Time
Cook: 40 min Total: 40 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
For the pheasants
For garnish
Instructions (7)
  1. Truss the pheasants with plump breasts as for roasting.
  2. Lard them closely.
  3. About an hour before dinner-time, put them on the spit before the fire to roast for about forty minutes.
  4. Take particular care to baste them frequently.
  5. Glaze them well just before taking them off the spit.
  6. When done, dish them up.
  7. Garnish round with groups of white cock's-combs, button mushrooms, small quenelles and truffles.
Original Text
TRUSS the pheasants with plump breasts as for roasting, lard them closely, and about an hour before dinner-time, put them on the spit before the fire to roast for about forty minutes; taking particular care to baste them frequently, and glaze them well just before taking them off the spit. When done, dish them up, garnish round with groups of white cock's-combs, button mushrooms, small quenelles and truffles;
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