This section is from the book "The Table: How To Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It", by Alessandro Filippini. Also available from Amazon: The Table: How To Buy Food, How To Cook It And How To Serve It.
Singe, draw, and neatly wipe six fine, fat snipe. Chop off the legs, and then stuff the inside with a little game forcemeat (No. 228) through a paper cornet; fill the cavity of the eyes with a little more of the game forcemeat (No. 228), and covering each eye right over the game forcemeat with a small bit of truffle, cut with a tube. Insert the bills in the breasts, and then lay them on a roast-ing-pan, with a little butter; place in the hot oven to roast for six minutes. Take from out the oven, lay each one on a square piece of bread, fried in a little clarified butter, pour one pint of hot salmi sauce (No. 193) over, to which have been added twelve whole mushrooms, and serve.
 
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