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To Stew Birds

From The Cook County cook book, 1912

Serves 4

Add boiling water if liquor is too reduced.

Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 203. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO STEW BIRDS — Wash and stuff them with bread crumbs, seasoned with pepper, salt, butter or chopped salt pork, and fasten them tight; line a stewpan with slices of 'bacon, add a qt. of water and a piece of butter the size of a goose egg

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