To pickele pidgions [pickle pigeons]

Item

Title
To pickele pidgions [pickle pigeons]
Date
en 1694/1795
Description
A recipe for boiled pigeon stuffed with herbs and spices and pickled with vinegar.
Transcript
Take pidgions boned boyle them till Enough but first lay every pidgion in pece of a Cleane Cloth take the livers boyle them shred them with as maney swete hearbs as when shred and mixed will with the a fore named will fill Everey pidgion plump as before it was boned Season the hearbs with nutmegs and salt when the pidgions is stufed with these and boyld Enough you may make the pickele of water with some sliced Ginger hole pepper and salt. when the water and spices are boyled and Colde put in as much vinecere as will sharpen them with a litele hole mase to keep them Close put in litele lards of Backen with the hearbes with in the pidgions
Contributor
Caylor, Karmen
Le, Vincent
en Grimm, Stephanie
en Bakir, Mehtap
Source
Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher
George Mason University Libraries
Rights
Public domain. There are no known restrictions.