Crustade of chicken and pigeon

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
8 ounces (to 12 oz.) wholemeal or wholewheat pastry
(depending on whether you want a lid on your crustade)
1 Pigeon
2 Chicken joints (two breasts
2/3 two whole legs)
2 cups Water or chicken stock
⅔ cup Dry white wine
x Several grinds black pepper
4 Cloves
½ ounce Butter
2 ounces Mushrooms, roughly chopped
1 ounce Raisins
3 larges Eggs
x Salt and pepper, to taste
½ teaspoon Ginger, ground

Directions

Roll out 8 ounces of the pastry and line an 8-inch flan dish; back the crust blind. Put the pigeon in a pot with the stock, wine, pepper and cloves and cook very slowly for an hour. Add the chicken and continue to cook for a further 45 minutes or till the meat of both birds is really tender. Meanwhile, cook the mushrooms lightly in the butter. Remove the birds from the stock and bone them. Cut the flesh into qhite small pieces, mix it with the mushrooms and the raisins and spread them over the base of the flan case. Beat the eggs with a fork and season with the salt, pepper, and ginger. Add 1 cup of the cooking juices and pour over the meat in the flan case.

If you want to have a lid. roll out the rest of the pastry and cover the flan. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F) for 25 minutes if uncovered, 35 minutes if covered. Serve warm with a good green salad.

For a more 20th century flavor -- double the chicken, leave out the pigeon, and substitute 1 oz. chopped fried bacon for the raisins.

Posted by Sam Lefkowitz, 4/6/95 Converted to Meal-Master format by Arthur Cloninger.

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