Roast Calf
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
The original text of the recipe is as follows:

Roast Calf, which was made for the Sayyid Abu al-'Ala in Ceuta. Take a young, plump lamb, skinned and cleaned. Make a narrow opening between the thighs and carefully take out everything inside of it of its entrails. Then put in the interior a roasted goose and into its belly a roasted hen and in the belly of the hen a roasted pigeon and in the belly of the pigeon a roasted starling and in the belly of this a small bird, roasted or fried, all this roasted and greased with the sauce described for roasting. Sew up this opening and place the ram in a hot tannur and leave it until it is done and browned. Paint it with that sauce and then place it in the body cavity of a calf which has been prepared clean; sew it up and place it in the hot tannur and leave it until it is done and browned; then take it out and present it.



Related Recipes
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Materials
The original recipe calls for the following ingredients: [edit this list as appropriate]

calf
sheep
goose
chicken
pigeons
starlings
birds
seafood


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Procedure
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Bibliography

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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
  <http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?anony:29>. Accessed on February 18, 2025, 3:28 am.