On Monday, February 18, 2013 5:55:28 PM UTC-6, merryb wrote:
> On Feb 18, 3:49*pm, "Jean B." > wrote:
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> > Paging through Venus in the Kitchen or Love's Cookery Book by
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> > Pilaff Bey (pseudonym of Norman Douglas), I came across the
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> > following: *Rôti Sans Pareil. *Going from the smallest item to the
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> > largest, we have
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> > a large olive stuffed with a paste of anchovies, capers and oil;
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> > a trussed and boned garden warbler;
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> > a fat ortolan;
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> > a boned lark;
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> > a boned thrush;
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> > a fat quail;
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> > a boned lapwing;
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> > a boned golden plover;
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> > a fat, boned, red-legged partridge;
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> > a young, boned, well-hung woodcock rolled in crumbs;
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> > a boned teal;
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> > a boned, well-larded guinea-fowl;
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> > a young, boned, tame duck;
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> > a boned, fat fowl; a well-hung pheasant5;
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> > a boned, fat, wild goose;
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> > a fine turkey; and
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> > a boned bustard.
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> > * *This was apparently an abbreviated form of a recipe that was in
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> > A. T. Raimbault's Le Parfait Cuisinier (1814). *Douglas points out
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> > some problems, like the impossibility of stuffing larger birds
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> > into smaller ones (e.g., stuffing a lapwing into a plover). *You
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> > can compare Douglas's rendition with that on page 92 of
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> > Raimbault's book via goog1e, assuming you can read French:
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> > <http://books.google.com/books?id=rtNqrNGoXEwC&printsec=frontcover&sou...>
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> >
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> > or
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> > http://tinyurl.com/b5beend
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> LOL- I have that book also! One of the lines cracks me up- a well hung
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> woodcock??
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> I wonder if all of those birds are still around.

This duck is far more well-hung than any woodcock.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articl.../14/366856.htm

--Bryan