Woodcock : The woodcock is a bird migratory wading bird paws short during bulb 60 cm wingspan (which gave it its name). It is from the Scolopacidae family – Species: Charadriiformes in chair very estimated.
The woodcock hunting en March-April andOctober à November (eras where she is most oily and the most tender). Enough rare et difficult to spot, because it has a plumage leaf-death, she has long enjoyed a great reputation gastronomic ; however, its marketing is prohibited. They say that in woodcock everything is good ; it's the game whose hunters make the most case, theOdour and flavor of this bird displease dogs hunting to whom it is very difficult to bring back a woodcock.
The sandpiper is the young of the woodcock, which is also called bechot.
A sandpiper is also a variety de snipe.
According to the hunters, it's the premier of birds Black and the queen of the swamps. For his smell delicious, the volatility its principles and finesse of his chair, It is sought by many gourmets. According to gourmets, woodcocks broche are, after the pheasant, game birds the most distinguished. The woodcock is a excellent game when she is oily ; it is always better during jellies ; we don't empty never.
In the classic kitchen, we leave her make from 4 to 8 days. Primed en messed up, terrines ou mousses neighborhoods, are the perfume goes very well with that of fresh truffes. To the broche, she must be good barded with a breastplate of bacon monitored throughout its baking. In preparations modern, we have it prefer fresh and we Food most of the time roasted.
– Quote from the French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893): “When a guest had finished the last beak of a woodcock, he had, on the orders of the baron, to tell a story to compensate the deprived” in the novel Tale of the woodcock (1883)
– Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Céline (1894-1961): “Cascade he believed in no one when it came to gargamelle! He did his own shopping three times a week...He brought back the nicest, plumpest things he found in poultry, turkeys like this! chickens like that! legs like we don't see anymore...! to blow up all the dishes in the oven! super fine salt meadows… when he found woodcock by the dozen” in the novel Guignol's band. (1952)
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