Woodcock and Snipe

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Instructions (6)
  1. To determine if a woodcock is fat, it should be thick and hard.
  2. To determine if a woodcock is new, its feet should be limber.
  3. To determine if a woodcock is stale, its feet will be dry.
  4. If a woodcock's nose is snotty, or its throat is muddy and moorish, it is not good.
  5. To determine if a snipe is fat, it will have a fat vent on the side under the wing, and the vent will feel thick.
  6. For the rest, check a snipe as you would a woodcock.
Original Text
Woodcock and Snipe. THE woodcock, if fat, is thick and hard; if new, limber foot- ed; when stale, dry footed; or if their noſes are ſnotty, and their throats muddy and mooriſh, they are naught. A ſnipe, if fat, has a fat vent in the fide under the wing, and in the vent feels thick; for the reſt like the woodcock.
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