California Band-Tails

Recipe Ingredients

4		Pigeons - (4 to 6)
		Flour
4 tablespoons	60ml	Butter
3/4 cup	177ml	Beef broth - (approximately)
1/4 cup	59ml	Port wine
2 tablespoons	30ml	Seedless raisins - to 3 tbspns
2		Whole cloves
		Rinsed, preserved grape leaves
		(or fresh leaves dipped in boiling water
		For 1 minute)

Recipe Instructions

Roll birds (tie if necessary) in flour; shake off excess. Brown on all sides in hot butter; do not burn butter. Add about half of the broth, all the wine, the raisins, and cloves. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes, adding more broth as needed. Arrange birds on grape leaves and spoon sauce over them to serve.

This recipe yields 4 to 6 servings.

Source:
THE HUNTER'S GAME COOKBOOK by Jacqueline E. Knight (c) 1978 - Published by Winchester Press, New York, NY

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