Another Way to Cook Partridge

Ingredients

• Split each bird in two lengthwise pieces
• put butter the size of an egg
• a teaspoonful of chopped parsley
• one of chopped mushrooms
• a gill of white wine
• one of broth
• a teaspoonful of flour
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Split the birds lengthwise, heat butter in a stewpan, add birds and cook until half done.

2. 2

   Transfer to a gridiron and cook for 15 minutes.

3. 3

   In the stewpan, add parsley, mushrooms, flour, wine, and broth, boil until thick.

4. 4

   Serve birds on the sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Catherine Owen's new cook book .. (1885) by Helen Alice (Matthews) Nitsch, page 98. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pepper and salt, and serve with bread sauce. BKOILED PRAIRIE HEK, OR PARTRIDGE. Clean and prepare as directed. Split the back of the bird, butter it all over, place it on a hot gridiron and turn several times to prevent burning. It will take, on a good fire, fifteen to twenty minutes, according to size; just before it is done, sprinkle with salt and pepper. While the bird is cooking, chop a teaspoonful of pars- ley very fine, mix it with the juice of a quarter lemon and a tablespoonf ul of butter. This quantity is for each bird, put this maitre d'^hotel hutter, as it is called, on a very hot dish, and lay the bird first on paper to take any dark grease there may be, and than lay it on the dish ; garnish with parsley. AKOTHER WAY (BLOT), And preferred by me, is as follows : Split each bird in two lengthwise pieces; put butter the size of an egg in a stewpan, set it on a good fire, when hot lay the birds in ; leave them till about half cooked, turning them three or four times ; then take them off, put them on a gridiron, cook fifteen minutes and serve with the follow- ing sauce: Put with the butter in the stewpan in which were the birds, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, one of Game, 1 93 chopped mushrooms, salt and pepper ; sprinkle in, and stir at same time, a teaspoonful of flour, a gill of white wine, and one of broth

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