Quick primary cooking question

[SwampG8r]

Can crow be used as the meat in humble pie?

[Land of Enchantment]

1. No we do not eat Corvidae. (Corvus)

This is a raven, not a crow.

[merrily]

4. Oops. Sorry, L of E. I didn't see your post before I posted.

Then again, as you well know, I am birdbrain!

[HereSince1628]

2. Actually, 4 and 20 black birds is the standard filling.

Or was that the revenge filling?

[merrily]

5. Mother Goose has a diabolical streak. Please see Reply 3.

[HereSince1628]

6. I guess it's a diabolical part of Italian cooking

certainly they never show cooking thrushes on PBS

[merrily]

11. I am not sure how you got from Mother Goose to Italy, but I'll go with you, anyway

I don't want Land of Enchantment to get upset, but

http://www.pompeii-food-and-drink.org/recipes.htm

http://davidlansing.com/how-to-cook-a-song-thrush/

https://books.google.com/books?id=CvNJXPb7wnIC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=thrush+bird+tongues+recipe&source=bl&ots=Mx-RPesbjx&sig=ETzziiftIHMwrko7kETh-hhvKI8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirxJmm15PMAhVFMz4KHTjPCVIQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=thrush%20bird%20tongues%20recipe&f=false

[HereSince1628]

12. I went from cooking birds in pies to cooking birds.

It didn't seem like a big step.

[merrily]

13. Hey, I'm right there with you, relishing a gelato, a meringue and an espresso.

It's just that Italy is not the only nation that cooks birds, so I didn't see the connection off the bat (no pun intended--not looking for a bat stew).

[HereSince1628]

14. I suppose that's true, but they're the only nation I know that strings nets in mountain passes

to capture birds during the fall migration from Europe to Africa.

I wouldn't argue they are the only one that does this.

[merrily]

3. Does a bear shout in the Vatican?

Blackbirds are in the crow family.


Sing a Song of Sixpence
By Mother Goose
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing—
Wasn't that a dainty dish
To set before the king?

The king was in the counting-house
Counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlor
Eating bread and honey,

The maid was in the garden
Hanging out the clothes.
Along came a blackbird
And snipped off her nose.

[Land of Enchantment]

7. Hola merrily! Gawd, you crack me up!

Your namesake continues to sing to us every morning and now we carry on conversations, each taking a turn. Here's somthing from a while back but still delicious...









Bernie gets the golden finch...



And Hillary gets the albatross (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)...

[merrily]

8. I'm so glad! A turkey as the Host? zomg.

I see the Ancient Mariner. At a yard sale, a friend found the poem in book form--a huge, narrow book. It must be at lease 2.5 feet tall. I've never seen anything like it.

The Rime (sic) is a downer. I felt so bad for the Mariner: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173253

[Land of Enchantment]

9. Wowsers. Haven't read that in ages....

thank you. I was sort of trying to make a metaphor for the Mariner killing the bird to HRC killing the Political Revolution...and of course, I love birds too! I hope your friend bought the book, that is awesome! Here's a nice photo of an albatross that's an upper---




Magnificent birds!

[merrily]

10. Yeah. She had an apartment in a very old building, which means large rooms.

She just laid the book on the floor in the living room where it was not in the flow of foot traffic. . It was old, cloth covered hardback. Shredding, some but it still looked fantastic. I never would have known what to do with it, so I probably would have passed it by. I am so glad she did not.