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To Roast Ortolans

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Roast Ortolans

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick and singe the ortolans, but do not draw them.

  2. Tie them onto a bird spit and roast them.

  3. Cover the ortolans with bread crumbs.

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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