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Game Broth

A broth made by boiling a wild bird in cold water and seasoning with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Game Broth

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cover the wild bird with 1 quart of cold water.

  2. Bring to a boil, then strain the broth.

  3. Season the broth with a little coarse sea salt.

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

Wild bird
Provides the meat and flavour that give the broth its body and taste.

“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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