To Roast Ortolans
Ingredients
Directions
Pick and singe the ortolans without drawing them.
Tie them on a bird spit and roast them.
If desired, place slices of bacon between the ortolans, but note that it may spoil their flavor.
Cover the ortolans with bread crumbs before serving.
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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