Woodcock in Croustade a la Comtesse

Ingredients

• woodcocks
• butter
• sherry
• pepper
• salt
• brown sauce
• piece of bread

Method

1. 1

   Pick, singe, clean, and wash them well; remove the insides, cut the breast in two pieces — one from each side, the rest of the meat put in a saucepan with stock, sherry, butter, pepper, and salt to boil from fifteen to twenty minutes, leave in the stock until cold.

2. 2

   When cold, pick the meat from the bones, chop and make into a puree, mix with a little of the brown sauce made from the pan the woodcocks have cooked in, adding insides, heart and liver that have been chopped and fried in butter, sherry, pepper, and salt.

3. 3

   Make croustades of bread, one for each person, by cutting a piece of bread about three inches in height and five inches around, scoop out, scallop on the top and fancy it all around, fry in hot fat; keep hot in the stove; fill with a puree of woodcocks and in the meantime fry the small fillets of the bird in butter, sherry, pepper, and salt.

4. 4

   Put one fillet on each croustade.

5. 5

   Serve on a paper doily, as an entree for luncheon or dinner.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 353. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

oodcock in Croustade, a la Comtesse Becasse en Croustade, a la Comtesse Pick, singe, clean, and wash them well; remove the insides, cut the breast in two pieces — one from each side, the rest of the meat put in a saucepan with stock, sherry, butter, pepper, and salt to boil from fifteen to twenty minutes, leave in the stock until cold. When cold, pick the meat from the bones, chop and make into a puree, mix with a little of the brown sauce made from the pan the woodcocks have cooked in, adding insides, heart and liver that have been chopped and fried in butter, sherry, pepper, and salt. Make croustades of bread, one for each person, by cutting a piece of bread

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.