Name: Capon in a bladder (Agriturismo Le Caselle, San Giacomo delle Segnate (Mantua))
Prep time: 6 h
Total time: 6 h
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: vinegar; 1 carrot; ½ celery stalk; 1 cow’s bladder (or sow’s); 1 onion; salsa verde, mixed fruit mostarda or tonnato sauce, for serving; 1 bouquet garni of bay and sage; coarse salt; a few peppercorns; 1 hollow cane, from elder or other shrub or tree, 3–4 cm wide and 30 cm long; 1 whole capon; 2 garlic cloves

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
6 hr

Appears in

Recipes from Milan and Lombardy

By Slow Food

Published 2018

About

Ingredients

1 whole capon
½ celery stalk
1 carrot
1

Method

Trim off the capon’s neck, feet, liver, gizzard and internal fat and use these to prepare a light broth.

Put the celery, carrot, onion, garlic, bouquet garni, peppercorns and a pinch of coarse salt inside the capon’s cavity. Sew closed and tie the wings and legs close to the body.

Soak the bladder in a mixture of water and vinegar and wash carefully, allowing it to soften. Caref