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The Cook County cook book

1912

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Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
COMBINATION GAME PIE.— Wild pigeons and quails, rice birds, snipe, woodcock — in fact any small edible birds — may be blended in this. Clean the birds, and. if tough, stew them in weak stock. If they are too large for a whole bird to be served for one portion — cut them in halve? through the breastbone. If the birds are young and tender they may be browned in hot but- ter; first dredging them with flour instead of parboiling. Ar- range them in a deep, round baking-dish with the breasts up and the feet pointing toward the center. Make a gravy of the stock in which they were parboiled, season well with salt, pepper, onion juice, and the juice of half a lemon; thicken with butter and browned flour. Fill in the central SDace left by the feet of the game with mushrooms, a cup of small, drained oysters. 2 kidneys, cut into quarters, "Yl a cup of pimolas, or with plain olives, stoned, and 3 hard-boiled eggs, minced fine, with 1 doz. button onions, parboiled✪ Combination Game Pie. Pour the rich gravy over all. Cover with a good puff- paste; make a slit in the middle, and bake, covered, 5^ an hr., then brown. — Mrs. W. Williams, 4548 Prairie Ave., Chicago, 111. PIE OF SMALL BIRDS.— Clean and stew blackbirds, rice- birds or snipe, etc., for Y^ hr. in we'ak stock. Let them get per- fectly cold in this gravy; take out, put an oyster in the body of each. Arrange around the inside of the bake-dish, the necks all against the rim, the tails pointin gtoward the center. Put a bit 296 FOWL of butter upon each breast and sprinkle very finely minced salt pork over all. Thicken the gravy with browned flour, season well✪ Pie of Small Birds, and pour upon the birds. Cover with a good crust, cut a slit in the middle and bake, covered, Y-z an hr., then brown. — Mrs. Roger Rawlings, Chicago Heights, 111. TO ROAST ANY SMALL BIRDS.— Stuff the birds with any forcemeat, or put 1 large oyster in each bird, place some bacon in an earthen dish, upon this lay the birds. If the forcemeat is used add 1 pt. of rich stock; if oysters, the oyster liquor. Add butter, pepper and salt✪ To Roast Any Small Birds, and roast in a quick oven. — Mrs. E. D. Kellej', Winnetka, 111. SMALL BIRDS ROASTED IN POTATOES— Halve sweet potatoes lengthwise and scrape out the inside, making a place large enough in each half to hold Y^ bird. Clean and draw the birds, and cut off heads and legs. Place a piece of butter in each bird, season with salt and pepper✪ Small Birds Roasted in Potatoes, spread them with butter and place them in the potato shells, tying a string around each potato to hold the pieces together^ Roast in a baking-pan, and serve in the potatoes. — ^^Mrs. C J. Canthorn, Wilmette, 111.