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Boiled Partridges

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Mushroom sauce
  2. Cut
  3. Water
  4. Salt
  5. a slice of fresh butter
  6. Bread sauce
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. This is a delicate mode of dressing young and tender birds.
  2. Strip otf the feathers, clean, and wash them well ;
  3. cut off the heads, truss the legs like those of boiled fowls, and when ready, drop them into a large pan of boiling water ;
  4. throw a little salt on them, and in fifteen, or at the utmost in eighteen minutes they will be ready to serve.
  5. Lift them out, dish them quickly, and send them to table with white mushroom sauce, with bread sauce and game gravy (see preceding receipt), or with celery sauce.
  6. Our own mode of having them served is usually with a slice of fresh butter, about a table° spoonful of lemon-juice, and a good sprinkling of cayenne placed in a very hot dish, under them.
  7. 15 to 18 minutes.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board