Beccaccini Alla Diplomatica Snipe Recipe

Ingredients: Snipe, ham, larding bacon, herbs, Marsala, croutons,

truffles, cocks' combs, mushrooms, sweetbread, tongue.



Truss fourteen snipe and cook them in a mirepoix made with plenty of

ham, fat bacon, herbs, and a wine glass of Marsala. When they are cooked

pour off the sauce, skim off the grease and reduce it. Take the two

smallest snipe and make a forcemeat of them by pounding them in a

mortar with the livers of all the snipe, then dilute this with reduced

Espagnole sauce (No. 1) and add it to the first sauce. Cut twelve

croutons of bread just large enough to hold a snipe each, and fry them

in butter. Add some chopped herbs and truffles to the forcemeat, spread

it on the croutons, and on each place a snipe and cover it with a bit

of fat bacon and buttered paper. Put them in a moderate oven for a few

minutes, arrange them on a dish, and pour some of their own sauce over

them. Garnish the spaces between the croutons with white cocks' combs,

mushrooms, and truffles. The truffles should be scooped out and filled

with a little stuffing of sweetbread, tongue, and truffles mixed with

a little of the sauce of the snipe. Serve the rest of the sauce in a

sauce-boat.

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