Pigeon Potpie

“Wild pigeons — Immense flocks of these beautiful birds have been flying about this neighborhood for several days. Our sportsmen have not lacked in industry, and nearly everyone has by this time had a taste of Pigeon Pot-Pie,” reported the Bucks County Intelligencer for March 29, 1830. Pigeon cookery, for which our region was famous in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, has now shifted to domestic squab. Though squab is not quite the same as wild passenger pigeon, every section