Stewed Partridges

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (26)
For the partridges
For thickening and serving
For the second partridge preparation
Instructions (17)
  1. Truss your partridges as for roasting, fluff the craws, and lard them down each side of the breast.
  2. Roll a lump of butter in pepper, salt, and beaten mace, and put it into the bellies.
  3. Sew up the vents.
  4. Dredge them well, and fry them to a light brown.
  5. Put them into a stew-pan with a quart of good gravy, a spoonful of Madeira wine, the same of mushroom catchup, a tea-spoonful of lemon pickle, and half the quantity of mushroom powder, one anchovy, half a lemon, a sprig of sweet marjoram.
  6. Cover the pan close, and stew them half an hour.
  7. Take them out, and thicken the gravy.
  8. Boil the gravy a little, and pour it over the partridges.
  9. Lay round them artichoke bottoms boiled and cut in quarters, and the yolks of four hard eggs, if agreeable.
Second preparation method
  1. Take one and pull the meat off the breast, and beat it in a marble mortar, with the forcemeat it was stuffed with.
  2. Have ready a strong gravy made of ham and veal, strain it into a stew-pan.
  3. Take the bacon off the other two partridges, wipe them clean, and put them into the gravy, with a good deal of shalots.
  4. Let them stew till tender.
  5. Take them out, and boil the gravy till it is almost as thick as bread sauce.
  6. Add to it a glass of sweet oil, the same of Champagne, and the juice of a China orange.
  7. Put your partridges in, and make them hot.
  8. Garnish with slices of bacon and lemon.
Original Text
To ſtew PARTRIDGES. TRUSS your partridges as for roaſting, fluff the craws, and lard them down each ſide of the breaſt, then roll a lump of butter in pepper, ſalt, and beaten mace, and put it into the bellies, ſew up the vents, dredge them well, and fry them a light brown, then put them into a ſtew-pan, with a quart of good gravy, a ſpoonful of Ma- deira wine, the ſame of muſhroom catchup, a tea-ſpoonful of lemon pickle, and half the quantity of muſhroom powder, one anchovy, half a lemon, a ſprig of ſweet marjoram, cover the pan cloſe, and ſtew them half an hour, then take them out, and thicken the gravy, boil it a little, and pour it over the partridges, and lay round them artichoke bottoms boiled and cut in quarters, and the yolks of four hard eggs, if agreeable. one and pull the meat off the breaſt, and beat it in a marble mortar, with the forcemeat it was ſtuffed with, have ready a ſtrong gravy made of ham and veal, ſtrain it into a ſtew-pan, then take the bacon off the other two, wipe them clean, and put them into the gravy, with a good deal of ſhalots, let them ſtew till tender, then take them out, and boil the gravy till it is almoſt as thick as bread ſauce, then add to it a glaſs of ſweet oil, the ſame of Champagne, and the juice of a China orange, put your partridges in, and make them hot.—Garnish with ſlices of bacon and lemon.
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