How to make it

  • STUFFED:
  • Cut up sweetbread,liver,gizzard,onion,parsley.
  • Add salt and pepper.
  • Put stuffing inside of your pigeon.
  • Tie the bacon down and over.
  • Then place in stewpan with the chablis,stock,onion,carrot.
  • When cooked to your liking,pass the sauce through a sieve,skim it,add more sauce.
  • Place your pigeons on platter and pour sauce over top.
  • STEWED:
  • Your pigeon must be young.
  • Rip out the entire inside,leaving none of the heart or liver,as this would render your dinner bitter.
  • Stick the veal shank inside.
  • Place in pot,with bacon,lemon slices,thyme,bay leaf.
  • Then just let it stew...for about 1 hour.
  • To make the sauce with the cucumber and mushrooms this must be sweated in butter until tender,to the touch.
  • Strain,put in strong gravy,throw in a dab of flour to thicken it up a bit.
  • From the cracked eggs,remove the heart of the yolk.
  • Add the cows cream
  • When you put to it,must be well stirred up.
  • Don't suffer it to boil or it will curdle and spoil the sauce.
  • ~No need to walk a tight rope...in a choose of how to serve pigeon...either one of these choices would be fine...This is a much loved delicacy in fine restaurants in France,a robust flavor.~
  • ~ A nice glass of wine woud be fine ~

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