Pheasants with Cabbage and Bacon

The modern cook · Charles Elmé Francatelli · 1846
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The modern cook
Time
Cook: 120 min Total: 120 min
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Ingredients (18)
for the stew
for serving
Instructions (27)
  1. Truss the pheasants as for boiling.
  2. Place the pheasants in a rather large oval stewpan.
  3. Add three white-heart or Savoy cabbages, previously cut into halves, with cores removed, and blanched or parboiled.
  4. Tie up the blanched cabbage halves with string after seasoning with mignonette pepper and salt.
  5. Add two carrots.
  6. Add one head of celery.
  7. Add two onions, each stuck with two cloves.
  8. Add one pound of streaky bacon, from which all rust has been pared off, and which has been parboiled like the cabbages.
  9. Add one pound of German sausage.
  10. Add a garnished faggot of parsley.
  11. Moisten with good stock in sufficient quantity to cover the pheasants.
  12. Cover with a piece of buttered paper.
  13. Put the lid on the stewpan.
  14. Set the whole on a moderate fire to stew very gently for about two hours.
  15. Just before sending to table, take out the pheasants.
  16. Drain the pheasants upon a napkin.
  17. Remove the strings from the pheasants.
  18. Dish up the pheasants with an ornamental croustade of fried bread in the centre.
  19. Put the bacon and German sausage on a plate.
  20. Drain the cabbages in a colander.
  21. Roll the drained cabbages in a clean napkin in the form of a rolling pin.
  22. Cut the rolled cabbage into two-inch lengths and place them around the pheasants.
  23. Trim the bacon, cut it into strips and lay them on top of the circle of cabbage pieces in alternate layers with slices of the sausage.
  24. Place well-formed groups of nicely-shaped glazed carrots, turnips and onions, prepared for the purpose, about the upper part of this dish.
  25. Pour an Espagnole sauce over the whole.
  26. Glaze the pheasants and the roots.
  27. Serve.
Original Text
THESE must be trussed as for boiling, and placed in a rather large oval stewpan with three white-heart or Savoy cabbages previously cut into halves, the cores taken out, and blanched or parboiled: afterwards the two halves of each cabbage, previously seasoned with mignonette pepper and salt, must be tied up with string; add two carrots, one head of celery, two onions, each stuck with two cloves, one pound of streaky bacon from which all the rust has been pared off, and which must also be parboiled like the cabbages, one pound of German sausage, and a garnished faggot of parsley; moisten with good stock in sufficient quantity to cover the pheasants; cover with a piece of buttered paper, put the lid on the stewpan, and then set the whole on a moderate fire to stew very gently for about two hours. Just before sending to table, take out the pheasants, drain them upon a napkin, remove the strings, and dish them up with an ornamenta croustade of fried bread in the centre; then put the bacon and German sausage upon a plate, and after having drained the cabbages in a colander, roll them in a clean napkin in the form of a rolling pin; cut this into two-inch lengths and place them round the pheasants; trim the bacon, cut it into strips and lay them on the top of the circle of the pieces of cabbages in alternate layers with slices of the sausage; about the upper part of this dish, place well-formed groups of nicely-shaped glazed carrots, turnips and onions, prepared for the purpose; pour an Espagnole sauce over the whole, glaze the pheasants and the roots, and serve.
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