Pigeons
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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Pigeons. Roast them including the heads but without the feet; eat them with fine salt. In a pie; eat them with fine salt, wine, or scallion, with the fat from the pie.

Related Recipes
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L - Pastry of young pigeon. Take the young pigeon and let them boil and chop up or if you want whole; then make the crust of pastry and put inside the pigeon with sweet spices and pine nuts and pieces of lard and sharp wine. If it is time, put it to cook, and then when it is cooked put verjuice inside and it is good and perfect. []

A Dish of Young Pigeons. Take plump, active pigeons, clean them and put them in a pot and add a little salt, pepper, coriander, and oil. Fry a little and then pour over it water to cover, throw in a quarter ratl of sugar and finish cooking it until it is done, and then cover the contents of the pot with four eggs beaten with saffron and cinnamon. Dot it with egg yolk and leave it on the hearthstone a while, then empty it into a plate and sprinkle it with sugar, lavender and cinnamon and use it. []

A Preparation of Remarkable Pigeons (Bûjûn). Take plump pigeons fattened indoors, clean and grease with murri naqî', thyme and plenty of oil. Place it in the oven in a hantam (earthenware pot), then cut up the entrails, pound them and put them in a pot. Add walnuts and almonds, both pounded and whole, and a quarter û qiya of pepper, thyme, cumin, cloves, lavender, saffron, and coriander. Pour two spoonfuls of oil, as much strong vinegar, and one spoonful of murri naqî' over this all, and put it over a moderate fire. When this stuffing is cooked, dot it with ten eggyolks, then pour the sauce over the pigeons in their tajine, when it comes from the oven and is done cooking. Then leave it a little until it is cool, and serve it. []

Pidgeons. Boiled in water with a brown pepper [sauce] like a goose, without being ?? pidgeons. And who wants to, puts them in dough with bacon. []

Pidgeons. Boiled in water with a brown pepper [sauce] like a goose, without being ?? pidgeons. And who wants to, puts them in dough with bacon. []

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Materials
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pigeons
salt
pies
wine
scallions

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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?viand:45>. Accessed on May 19, 2024, 1:46 am.

Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
  <http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?libro:50>. Accessed on May 19, 2024, 1:46 am.

Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
  <http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?anony:54>. Accessed on May 19, 2024, 1:46 am.

Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
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