Perdreau Rôti (Roast Partridge)

Ingredients

• 1 young partridge
• 1 vine leaf
• butter
• 1 thin barde of pork back fat
• 1 croûton fried in butter and stuffed
• 1 lemon
• watercress

Instructions

1. Wrap the partridge in a buttered vine leaf, then in a thin barde of pork fat.
2. Roast in a hot oven for 20 minutes.
3. Dress it on a croûton fried in butter and stuffed.
4. Surround it with a half lemon and a bouquet of watercress.