Woodcock etc..
I really appreciate this thread as it deviates from the
never ending ammendment 2 disputes/insults...
So here is some info ..
In the wine pubs of western Vienna you cold hear a
cynical song which reads...
" Wer a goed hot isst an Schnepfen-dreck und
wer kans hot lasst den Schnepfen weg"...
(Schnepfen-dreck means "gut"and NOT junk....)
I will not translate it further, but my late mother
who learned to cook in a grand-bourgois household
told me that the woodcock-gut has been roasted....
To conclude on game meat in Central Europe:
- roe dear young in november/december is unbeatable
as everything on it is steak-like with beginning
game taste
- young WILD (non-reared) Hungarian partridge can not be bettered
by any pheasant or other bird
Guten Appetit and cheers
FN
