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1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
309. Truffled Partridge. Prepare three par- tridges as for roasting, make an incision in the skin of the neck. Pound together two chickens' livers and the same in quantity of fresh fat pork, adding a pinch of salt and pepper and a little nutmeg. Mix all to- gether, with half a pound of truffles, cut in quarters, and put the third of your farce in each partridge. Sew up the opening through which you have inserted the farce, and also the skin of the neck. Then put a little butter on them, and roast them for thirty-five to forty minutes, according to the size of your par- tridges. Serve around them a sauce perigueux (Art. 91). Grouse are prepared in each manner described for partridges. 310. Broiled Quail. Prepare and broil eight quails as for broiled partridge. You may also devil them, as described in deviled chicken (Art. 266). 311. Roast Quail. Prepare eight quails for roasting, with a piece of thin pork on top and a claret-glass of consomme (Art. 1) in the pan. Fifteen minutes on a good fire will be sufficient to roast them. Boil the liquid in your pan for a moment, strain it, put it in a dish with your quails, under each of which you have placed a piece of toast, and serve garnished with water-cressesRoast Quail. 312. Quail en Caisse. Split eight quails through ENTREES. 117 the back, without injuring the fillets, and remove the bones. Take half a dozen chickens' livers with as much fat pork, and pound together to a paste, then mix with this four truffles chopped very fine, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and fill the inside of your quail with this mixture, then wrap them up in thin strips of pork, and tie a string around each, so as to pre- serve their shape. Put them in a pan and send them to the oven for fifteen minutes. Then take eight paper cases, as wide and as high as your quail, put a little oil on the inside of the cases, and half fill them with a farce of sausage, with which you have mixed four chopped truffles, as many mushrooms, a little salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Put your quail on top, and send them to the oven for twenty minutes. Put a tablespoonful of Spanish sauceQuail en Caisse (Art. 80) on top of each quail. 313. Quail with Truffles. Clean eight quails, split them through the back and remove the bones. Put in a saucepan on the fire for a moment the livers of your quails, five chickens' livers, and the same quantity of fresh fat pork. Take them out of your saucepan and pound them together, adding two truffles chopped fine, a pinch of salt, pepper, and nutmeg, fill your quails with the mixture and sew up the opening. Tie on top of each a thin piece of pork, place them in a saucepan with slices of ham, and moisten half their height with an equal quantity of consommeQuail with Truffles (Art. 1) and white wine. Send them to the oven for about thirty minutes, remove the strings used for tying on the pork, and place your n8 FRENCH DISHES. quails on a dish. Skim off all grease from their liquid, strain it, put it in a saucepan on the fire for a moment, add to it a dozen truffles cut in slices, pour it over your quails, and serve.