Fried Pigeons Recipe

Ingredients for Fried Pigeons

• 4 pigeons
• ½ pound sausage meat
• 1 egg
• Carrot
• Turnip
• Onion
• Celery
• Mace
• Cloves

Instructions

1. Empty and split pigeons in halves, lengthways; remove 1 joint of wing and of leg, and truss neatly; wash thoroughly.
2. Put into a stewpan, a small bit turnip and carrot, small onion, bit of celery, blade of mace, few cloves and whole peppers; place pigeons on top; add 2 cups water, and all giblets of pigeons nicely cleaned and prepared; cover all with vegetable shorteninged paper and cover them with lid, and cook gently 1 hour.
3. Remove pigeons from pan, and dry each thoroughly.
4. Divide sausage into 4 portions; fill hollow of pigeons with these, and with floured hands pat it quite smooth, using flour all over pigeons.
5. Have an egg well beaten; cover carefully with it, and roll in fine breadcrumbs.
6. Put into hot vegetable shortening, and fry a golden brown.
7. Have the following sauce in dish, and place the pigeons neatly in center: Strain liquor pigeons were stewed in, and into pan put 1 tablespoon flour and 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening, moisten it with a little cold water; then add to it the liquor, a 1/4 teaspoon meat extract, 1 small tomato chopped up, and salt to taste; let all boil for 10 minutes; then strain.
8. It may require more stock or water to be added to make sauce a good consistency.