How to roast a peacock and serve him in his skin

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Curious Cookbook: Viper Soup, Badger Ham, Stewed Sparrows and 100 More Historic Recipes

By Peter Ross

Published 2012

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Method

Peacock Roasted

Take a peacock, break his neck, cut his throat, and flay the skin and the feathers together, with the head still on the skin of the neck, keeping whole the skin and the feathers together; draw [eviscerate] him like a chicken, keeping the neck bone whole. Roast him, setting