Pigeons with Crayfish

Ingredients

• four young pigeons
• a large piece of breadcrumb (ten ounces)
• a piece of butter
• a few yolks of eggs
• season with salt
• pepper
• nutmeg
• a piece of butter
• four small onions
• a garnished bunch
• broth
• white wine
• two dozen cooked crayfish tails

Method

1. 1

   Remove bones from pigeons and soak breadcrumb in broth or milk.

2. 2

   Mix with butter, yolks, and livers, season, and stuff pigeons.

3. 3

   Sew and truss them, fry in butter with ham trimmings and onions.

4. 4

   Sprinkle with flour, moisten with broth and wine, boil, cover, and finish cooking.

5. 5

   Drain, remove string, pass sauce through sieve, thicken with yolks, add crayfish tails, and serve garnished.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 96. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pigeons with Crayfish.) Take out the bones of four young pigeons ; soak in broth, or milk, a large piece of breadcrumb (ten ounces) ; press it to extract its moisture, and bruise it with a spoon in a stewpan ; add to it a piece of butter, a few yolks of eggs, and the cooked livers of the pigeons, cut up in small dice ; season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. With this farce stuff the pigeons ; sew, truss, and put them into a stewpan, with a piece of butter, a few trimmings of ham, their giblets, four small onions, and a garnished bunch. Set the stewpan on a good fire, fry the pigeons, tossing them, and as soon as of a light colour sprinkle over a pinch of flour, and moisten to height with broth and white wine, half of each ; let the stock boil, add to it a few trimmings of ham ; five or six minutes after, cover the stewpan, 224 HUNGARY draw it on a moderate fire, and thus finish cooking the pigeons. When ready to serve, drain them, remove the string, pass the sauce through a sieve into another stewpan, reduce it for two minutes, thicken it with three yolks of eggs, then finish it with some crayfish cullis, and add two dozen cooked crayfish tails

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