Boiled PIGEONS and BACON

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (8)

fix young pigeons ↝ Squab, (pigeon), meat only, raw [Poultry Products]
milk ↝ Milk, NFS [Milk, reduced fat]
water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
a ſquare piece of bacon ↝ Beef, bacon, cooked [Bacon]
lumps of ſtewed ſpinage
plain melted butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
parſley ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]
butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

Instructions (10)

Wash the pigeons clean.
Turn their legs under their wings.
Boil them in milk and water by themselves twenty minutes.
Boil a square piece of bacon.
Take off the bacon skin and brown it.
Put the bacon in the middle of your dish.
Lay the pigeons round the bacon.
Add lumps of stewed spinach.
Pour plain melted butter over the pigeons and bacon.
Send parsley and butter in a boat.

Original Text

Boiled PIGEONS and BACON.
TAKE fix young pigeons, wash them clean
as before, turn their legs under their wings, boil
them in milk and water by themſelves twenty
minutes, have ready boiled a ſquare piece of
bacon, take off the ſkin and brown it, put the
bacon in the middle of your dish, and lay the
pigeons round it, and lumps of ſtewed ſpinage; pour plain melted butter over them, and ſend
parſley and butter in a boat.

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