Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

Feeding the Young Birds

Name: Feeding the Young Birds
Yield: 1 servings
Ingredients: a quarter of a boiled egg minced very fine; a bit of white bread steeped in water and afterward pressed; another jar should contain rape seed which has been boiled; one cracker; these meals must not be fewer than ten or twelve a day

From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886

Serves 1

Ensure to feed the young birds with the paste made from white bread, rape seed, and egg yolk for proper nourishment.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

a quarter of a boiled egg minced very fine
a bit of white bread steeped in water and afterward pressed
another jar should contain rape seed which has been boiled
one cracker
these meals must not be fewer than ten or twelve a day

Method

As soon as the young are hatched, place a small jar beside the feeding trough with minced boiled egg and pressed white bread.
Provide another jar with boiled rape seed.
Young birds require soft food; boil an egg hard, grate it with a cracker, mix thoroughly, roll into balls, and place in the cage three times a day.
When young birds perch for one or two nights, they can be placed in separate cages but still need soft food.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a quarter of a boiled egg minced very fine, white and yellow together, with a bit of white bread steeped in water and afterward pressed; another jar should contain rape seed which has been boiled, and then washed in fresh water, to remove all its acerbity. Young birds require soft food ; boil an egg hard and grate it with one cracker and thoroughly mix ; roll into balls about as large as an English walnut and put one in the cage. They are apt to feed better if they have it given say three times a day. When the young birds have perched aloft one or two nights they are old enough to be put in sepa- rate cages, but they still require soft food ; also put rape and canary seed in the cage. When it is necessary to bring up the young by hand, a bit of white _t>read, or some biscuit, should be pounded very fine, and this powder should be mixed with well-bruised rape seed. This composition serves, with a little yolk of egg and some water, to make a paste, which is 10 BIRDS. given to the young birds on a quill cut like a spoon ; each nursling receives for a meal four beakfuls, well piled upon the quill, and these meals must not be fewer than ten or twelve a day

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