Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
Hand Feeding Young Birds
From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886
Serves 1
Young birds should remain warmly covered by the mother until they are unfledged, generally for twelve days.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
- a bit of white bread
- some biscuit
- a little yolk of egg
- on a quill cut like a spoon
Method
Pound white bread and biscuit very fine, mix with well-bruised rape seed, yolk of egg, and water to make a paste.
Feed each young bird four beakfuls of this paste on a quill, ensuring they receive ten to twelve meals a day.
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 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
Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.