Boiled Pheasant with Celery Sauce

Ingredients

• Pheasant
• a pint of milk
• a pint of veal or chicken stock
• good sticks of Celery
• a little onion
• a tablespoonful of cream

Method

1. 1

   Boil the Pheasant with plenty of vegetables.

2. 2

   For the sauce, wash and cut Celery, boil, strain, and add milk and stock.

3. 3

   Bring to boil, skim, and simmer until tender (about 2 hours).

4. 4

   Thicken with cream, strain, and keep warm.

5. 5

   Optionally, stuff the Pheasant with blanched Celery and chopped liver.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 195. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pheasant. — Pheasants are in season from the first of October until the first of February. Roast Pheasant. — Allow from three-quarters of an hour to an hour for roasting, and be very careful to baste the bird often. Hand brown gravy, bread sauce, and fried crumbs. Boiled Pheasant. — Boil like a chicken with plenty of vegetables. Serve with Celery Sauce. For this, choose good sticks of Celery, wash and wipe them, pare off any discoloured parts, but do not scrape the sticks. Cut up the Celery, put it into cold water and let it come to the boil. Strain off the water, and add to the Celery a pint of milk, and a pint of veal or chicken stock. Bring it again to the boil, skim, and let the Celeiy simmer till quite tender. This will take about two hours. Thicken, stir well, pass the sauce through a strainer, add a tablespoonful of cream, and keep it warm in the bain- marie. This is less rich and less troublesome than the old- fashioned way of boiling the Celery in half a pint of cream, stirring it all the while ovei’ a low fire. It is an improvement to stuff the Pheasant itself with Celery cut in pieces and blanched for a few minutes in boiling water. Fill the cavity of the bird with this and its chopped liver ; a little onion

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