Broiled Pigeons

Ingredients

• Pigeons
• 3 oz butter
• pepper and salt to taste

Instructions

1. Take care that the pigeons are quite fresh, and carefully pluck, draw, and wash them; split the backs, rub the birds over with butter, season them with pepper and salt, and broil them over a moderate fire for 1/4 hour or 20 minutes.
2. Serve very hot, with either mushroom-sauce or a good gravy.
3. Pigeons may also be plainly boiled, and served with parsley and butter; they should be trussed like boiled fowls, and take from 1/4 hour to 20 minutes to boil.