STEWED GOOSE, PIQUANTE

Cut up, after being skinned, and stew, seasoning with salt, pepper, a few cloves and a very little lemon peel.  When done heat a little goose fat in a frying-pan, brown half a tablespoon of flour, add a little vinegar and the juice of half a lemon.

MINCED GOOSE (HUNGARIAN STYLE)

Take the entire breast of a goose, chop up fine in a chopping bowl; grate in part of an onion, and season with salt, pepper and a tiny piece of garlic.  Add some grated stale bread and work in a few eggs.  Press this chopped meat back on to the breast bone and roast, basting very often with goose fat.

DUCK

Singe off all the small feathers; cut off neck and wings, which may be used for soup; wash thoroughly and rub well with salt, ginger and a little pepper, inside and out.  Now prepare this dressing:  Take the liver, gizzard and heart and chop to a powder in chopping bowl.  Grate in a little nutmeg, add a piece of celery root and half an onion.  Put all this into your chopping bowl.  Soak some stale bread, squeeze out all the water and fry in a spider of hot fat.  Toss this soaked bread into the bowl; add one egg, salt, pepper and a speck of ginger and mix all thoroughly.  Fill the duck with this and sew it up.  Lay in the roasting-pan with slices of onions, celery and specks of fat.  Put some on top of fowl; roast two hours, covered up tight and baste often.  Stick a fork into the skin from time to time so that the fat will try out.

ROAST DUCK

Draw the duck; stuff, truss and roast the same as chicken.  Serve with giblet sauce and currant jelly.  If small, the duck should be cooked in an hour.

DUCK A LA MODE IN JELLY

One duckling of about five pounds, one calf’s foot, eight to ten small onions, as many young carrots, one bunch of parsley.  Cook the foot slowly in one quart of water, one teaspoon of salt and a small bay leaf.  Put aside when the liquor has been reduced to one-half.  In the meanwhile fry the duck and when well browned wipe off the grease, put in another pan, add the calf’s foot with its broth, one glass of dry white wine, a tablespoon of brandy, the carrots, parsley and the onions—­the latter slightly browned in drippings—­pepper and salt to taste and cook slowly under a covered lid for one hour.  Cool off for about an hour, take off the grease, bone and skin the duckling and cut the meat into small pieces; arrange nicely with the vegetables in individual earthenware dishes, cover with the stock and put on the ice to harden.

SQUABS, OR NEST PIGEONS

Pick, singe, draw, clean and season them well inside and out, with salt mixed with a little ginger and pepper, and then stuff them with well-seasoned bread dressing.  Pack them closely in a deep stew-pan and cover with flakes of goose fat, minced parsley and a little chopped onion.  Cover with a lid that fits close and stew gently, adding water when necessary.  Do not let them get too brown.  They should be a light yellow.