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Larks or other small birds are dressed as Boudin à la Chipolata, with Chipolata garnish in suet crust. Pâté froid de gibier is a cold pie made of the meat of several kinds of game.
Pâté à la Yorkshire is composed of goose, hare, grouse, and snipes, with spices, sausage-meat, and slices of ham. dino nolia a evaid vadina sword whostaя эta Бaл Бank venda a brie
A short page, damaged at the end, about small birds and about pies made of mixed game. The first line is the one that stops a modern reader.
- Larks are not available and should not beLarks or other small birds opens the page. Wild songbirds are protected by law across Britain, Europe and North America: they cannot be taken, sold or served, and no part of this entry is reproducible. Read it as a record of what was eaten, not as a suggestion.
- What sits in the same place on the plateThe dish itself is a forcemeat pudding in a suet crust with a Chipolata garnish. Farmed quail is legal, cheap and small enough to work the same way, and the garnish and the crust are where the dish’s character actually lives. Rebuild it round quail and nothing structural is lost.
- Chipolata names the garnish, not the sausageIn this book’s own pages a Chipolata is sausage-meat, bacon and chestnuts together, used to surround a dish. A British shop now sells chipolatas as thin sausages, so a reader who recognises the word will reach for exactly the wrong thing and still miss the chestnuts.
- Boudin here is not blood puddingThe page gives Boudin à la Chipolata as a suet-crust dish, which is to say a shaped forcemeat baked or steamed in a pastry case. An English reader meeting boudin thinks of black pudding, and that is a different family altogether.
- A pie of four speciesPâté à la Yorkshire is goose, hare, grouse and snipe in one crust with spices, sausage-meat and slices of ham. A raised game pie now is usually one bird, or two. The older pie was a way of using whatever a season actually sent, which is why the recipe is a list rather than a formula.
- The last line is lostThe text ends in scrambled characters, including Cyrillic, where the page was scanned and read by machine. A sentence or two is missing from the end of the section, so the page is incomplete and should not be taken as a full account of the game removes.
The phrasing larks or other small birds is worth a moment. The species are treated as interchangeable and the quantity goes unmentioned, which is how a cookery book writes about something bought rather than something caught: a household that shot its own would have been told which bird and how many. The page sits in a chapter of substantial joints, and these little birds are grouped there with cold game pies, meaning they came to the table as a solid course for a company of people. The whole entry is three sentences long, and two of them are pies, which suggests the author expected the pies to be made more often than the birds.