The Ortolan, 1850. Creator: Unknown
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The Ortolan, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Ortolan, 1850. The Ortolan is not famed for its song, which is, however, soft and sweet...it formed one of the costly items of M. Soyer's "Hundred Guinea Dish, " at the recent banquet at York...They are taken in traps, from March or April to September...if fed with plenty of millet-seed and other grain, they become sheer lumps of fat, and delicious morsels. They are fattened thus in large establishments in the south of Europe; and Mr. Gould states this to be effected in Italy and the south of France in a dark room. The Ortolan is considered sufficiently fat when it is a handful; and is judged by feeling it, and not by appearance. They should not be killed with violence, like other birds: this might crush and bruise the delicate flesh, and spoil the coup d'oeil - to avoid which, the best mode is to plunge the head of the Ortolan into a glass of brandy...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850
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