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Roast Plover

Roast Plover is a dish where a plover is seasoned with coarse sea salt, wrapped in bacon, and cooked in a bag.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Roast Plover

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the plover carefully.

  2. Season the bird with coarse sea salt.

  3. Cover the breast with thin slices of bacon.

Cook

  1. Place the plover in a cooking bag.

  2. Cook for 8 minutes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Plover
The main protein, cooked whole so the meat stays moist inside the bag.
Thin slices of bacon
Covering the breast adds fat that bastes the lean meat as it cooks.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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