Cailles en Casserole (Stuffed Quails, braised in Casserole)

Ingredients

• Six quails
• 1 gill milk
• 2 oz. butter
• 1 cupful of bread-crumbs
• salt
• pepper
• nutmeg
• 2 yolks of eggs
• parsley
• 1 shallot
• 3-4 chicken livers
• about 6 slices of bacon
• 1 gill demi-glace or Madera sauce

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the quails as for stuffing.

2. 2

   Put the sauce and the milk in a stew-pan, add half an ounce of butter, a small bay-leaf, salt, pepper and a little grated nutmeg; when boiling stir in the bread-crumbs (a small cupful) and simmer for ten minutes.

3. 3

   Remove the bay-leaf and stir in the egg-yolks.

4. 4

   Cut up small the chicken livers, sauté them in butter in which the finely chopped shallot has been blended, season with pepper, salt and aromatics, and rub the liver, etc., through a sieve.

5. 5

   Mix the puree with the bread-crumbs, etc., and stuff the bird with this.

6. 6

   Wrap each quail in a thin slice of bacon, place them in an earthenware pan (casserole) with the remainder of butter, and cook over a slow fire for half an hour.

7. 7

   Pour off the fat and finish cooking in the sauce (demi-glace or Madeira).

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recherché entrées (1907) by Charles Herman Senn, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cailles en Casserole. (Stuffed Quails, braised in Casserole.) Six quails, i gill milk, 2 oz. butter, i cupful of bread- crumbs, salt, pepper, nutmeg, 2 yolks of eggs, parsley, i shallot, 3-4 chicken livers, about 6 slices of bacon, i gill demi-glace or Madera sauce. (See Sauces.) Prepare the quails as for stuffing. Put the sauce and the milk in a stew-pan, add half an ounce of butter, a small bay-leaf, salt, pepper and a little grated nutmeg ; when boiling stir in the bread-crumbs (a small cupful). 152 Recherche Entrees. and simmer for ten minutes. Remove the bay -leaf and stir in the egg-yolks. Cut up small the chicken livers, saut6 them in butter in which the finely chopped shallot

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