Ich habe mir vor kurzem aus Spaß einmal das "http://%22http//www.amazon.de/…1%22&tag=httpswwwaustr-21" (= "Frontier - foods" - Rezepte aus den Büchern von Laura Ingalls Wilder (Unsere kleine Farm)) via amazon bestellt und blättere immer mal wieder darin. Folgendes Rezept für einen "Blackbird Pie" passt nach m. E. ganz gut in die "Notversorgungsecke" für fleischarme Zeiten.
Aus dem Buch:
... Blackbirds are still a nuisance to farmers, but only one member of this large group of birds may be freely hunted throughout the United States. This is the starling, a twentieth-century European immigrant that is despised by townspeople as well for its noisy, dirty massing habbits. Starlings cannot be bought; they must be hunted. :grosses Lachen: The Ingallses´ corn-fed blackbirds were apparently plump enough to fry in their own fat. Not so the starling, which is lean and tough like another pest, the bygone passenger pigeon. This recipe is therefore based on old directions for pigeon pie. Starlings have little meat to reward the efford of plucking, but what there is has rich game flavor even after long cooking.
For six servings you will need:
Starlings, 12, plucked and dressed
Yellow onion, 1 medium
Cloves, 2 whole
Browned Flour, 2 tablespoones
Salt and pepper
Dumplings (Anm.: hier ist ein weiteres Rezept angegeben, sog. Sour Milk Biscuits. Ich denke, man kann Kloßteig nehmen.)
Meat cleaver or scissors, saucepan, bowl, pastry surface and rolling pin, milk-pan
With meat cleaver or scissors cut birds in half along breastbone and backbone. Put birds, giblets, onion and cloves in saucepan with 2 cups of water and simmer covered about 2 hours, or until a leg can easily be pulkled from a test bird. About half the liquid will cook away.
Preheat oven to 400°F (= 200 °C). Prepare dumplings, just moistenough to hold together in a ball.
Put the dumplings on the pastry surface and roll out, with as few strokes as possible, into a 10-inch circle 3/8 inch thick.
Remove starlings and giblets from broth to milk pan. Discard onion and cloves. Stir browned flour into the broth and heat it to boiling for a minute or two, stirring the wild. Salt and pepper the slightly thickened broth and pour over the birds. Cover the pan with the dumpling crust.
Bake pie at 400°F for 10 minutes, then lower heat to 350° (= 175°C) and bake 10 minutes more, or until the crust is cooked through.
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