A Quick Way to Cook Small Birds

Name: A Quick Way to Cook Small Birds
Ingredients: Prepare them as usual; dip each bird in flour; sprinkle with salt; Have a kettle with smoking lard; two eggs to half a pint

From Catherine Owen's new cook book .., 1885

A dozen birds can be cooked in less than twenty minutes.

Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Catherine Owen's new cook book .. (1885) by Helen Alice (Matthews) Nitsch, page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A QUICK WAY TO COOK SMALL BIRDS. Prepare them as usual ; dip each bird in flour and shake them ; sprinkle with salt. Have a kettle with smoking lard ; try it with a piece of bread, if it colors brown in one-half minute it is ready, if not wait and try again. When it is hot enough drop the birds in ; they will cool the lard, therefore don't put in more than six at a time ; three minutes will cook them ; try the lard before putting in more. Have ready as many rounds of bread as you have birds, soaked in ^gg and milk — two eggs to half a pint

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