September 11th
Cabbage Soup
Boiled Cabbage and bacon
Saddle of mutton with Purée of turnips
Lark Pie
Crayfish à la bordelaise
Pear Fritters
Pluck, singe and flatten the backs of two or three dozen larks, draw them, throw away the gizzards and pound the trail in a mortar with scraped bacon and mixed herbs; fill the larks with this and wrap each one in a slice of bacon. Line a plain mould with paste (Pastry), fill it with the larks, spreinle them with salt and pepper, spread a thick layer of butter over them, add two or three laurel (Bay) leaves and a pinch of mixed spice. Cover with paste (Pastry) and bake for two hours and a half. Turn out of the mould and serve cold.
Translations by me
Pluck, Singe & Flatten ... a firm Corporate Lawyers by any chance?
Thanks for the thought Snoopy ~ Intriguing recipe. And what's pounding the trail all about? 
Entrails dear boy ~ Entrails as opposed to the Gizzard which you are instructed to throw away. In other words the heart, liver etc can be "pounded" to form the base of the stuffing ~ BUT not the stomach and bowel with its contents.
