Name: Woodcock Pie
Total time: 2 h
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: fat bacon ½ lb.; Woodcock or snipe (or both) 4; pepper and salt and a very little aromatic spice; veal ¼ lb.; 2 thick slices of uncooked carrot.

Pluck the woodcock, reserving 2 heads feathered to decorate the pie when cooked.

Singe and bone the birds reserving the trail; remove the gizzards.

Make a crust according to Mr. Wright’s recipe for Melton Mowbray Pork Pie, or a firm short crust.

Put it into a collar mould (

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