Stewed Pigeons

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (15)
Instructions (12)
  1. Take eight pigeons, new killed, cut them into small pieces, and put them into a stew-pan with a pint of claret and a pint of water.
  2. Season your pigeons with salt and pepper, a blade or two of mace, an onion, a bundle of sweet-herbs, a good piece of butter just rolled in a very little flour.
  3. Cover it close, and let them stew till there is just enough for sauce.
  4. Take out the onion and sweet-herbs.
  5. Beat up the yolks of three eggs, grate half a nutmeg in.
  6. Push the meat all to one side of the pan and the gravy to the other side, and stir in the eggs.
  7. Keep them stirring for fear of turning to curds.
  8. When the sauce is fine and thick, shake all together, and put in half a spoonful of vinegar, and give them a shake.
  9. Put the meat into the dish, pour the sauce over it.
  10. Have ready some slices of bacon toasted, and fried oysters.
  11. Throw the oysters all over, and lay the bacon round.
  12. Garnish with lemon.
Original Text
Take eight pigeons, new killed, cut them into ſmall pieces, and put them into a ſtew-pan with a pint of claret and a pint of water. Seaſon your pigeons with ſalt and pepper, a blade or two of mace, an onion, a bundle of ſweet-herbs, a good piece of butter juſt roll’d in a very little flour : cover it cloſe, and let them ſtew till there is juſt enough for ſauce, and then take out the onion and ſweet-herbs, beat up the yolks of three eggs, grate half a nutmeg in, and with your ſpoon puſh the meat all to one ſide of the pan and the gravy to the other ſide, and ſtir in the eggs; keep them ſtirring for fear of turning to curds, and when the ſauce is fine and thick, ſhake all together, and put in half a ſpoonful of vinegar, and give them a ſhake; then put the meat into the diſh, pour the ſauce over it; and have ready ſome ſlices of bacon toaſted, and fried oyſters ; throw the oyſters all over, and lay the bacon round. Garniſh with lemon.
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