Baked Fillets of Snipe

Ingredients

• eight snipes
• vinegar
• red currant jelly
• a little sherry
• eight pieces of fried bread

Method

1. 1

   Slightly roast the snipes, fillet them, saving the trails.

2. 2

   Make a rich sauce from the bones, moistened with stock, vinegar, red currant jelly, and sherry.

3. 3

   Prepare fried bread, butter them, spread trails over them, season, place a breast of snipe on each, bake until hot, and pour thick rich sauce over them before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Culinary jottings (1885) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 210. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

eight snipes ; fillet them as you did the pigeons, saving the trails ; make Baked fiUeta of snipe ^^^ richest sauce you can of the bones, on toast. , •' ' moistened with stock and helped up with vinegar, red currant jelly, and a little sherry. Now prepare eight pieces of fried bread

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