370. Pasticcio Freddo di Cacciagione

Let’s take, for example, a gray partridge or a common partridge and make a pie that will serve six or seven people. The gray partridge (Perdrix cinerea) can be distinguished from the common partridge (Perdrix rubra) because the latter has red feet and a red beak and is somewhat larger.

These fowl are of the order of Rasores. They feed only on plants, particularly grains, and therefore the walls of their gizzards are particularly muscular; they dwell in the mount