newark bay and tributaries

[TAXI CRAB]

I prefer groundhogs

[jack1747]

That post made me starting thinking about vast untapped food sources.  I found a reference to "Robin Pot Pie" being a delicacy...... And that made me think about all these [dang] Black Birds.. Found this:
BLACK BIRD PIE RECIPE

3 1/2 cups self-rising flour
1 cup very warm water (almost hot)

Mix little biscuit dough. Knead 'til tough and dry - roll with rolling pin 'til very thin and cut into 2-inch strips.

(Clean birds according to information posted under recipe)
BIRDS:
25 black birds well covered with water
3/4 lb. sausage (link) - optional

Cook until tender (at least 2 hours or 1 hour for chicken). Salt and pepper to taste. When black birds are tender, keep broth at a rolling boil and drop in pastry - piece by piece, shaking pot constantly to keep pastry pieces separated. When all is in pot, place cover on and let cook for approximately 10 minutes. Let set for about ten more minutes. Then eat.

[mdjohn]

 

[Dreampixels]

That post made me starting thinking about vast untapped food sources.  I found a reference to "Robin Pot Pie" being a delicacy...... And that made me think about all these [dang] Black Birds.. Found this:
BLACK BIRD PIE RECIPE

3 1/2 cups self-rising flour
1 cup very warm water (almost hot)

Mix little biscuit dough. Knead 'til tough and dry - roll with rolling pin 'til very thin and cut into 2-inch strips.

(Clean birds according to information posted under recipe)
BIRDS:
25 black birds well covered with water
3/4 lb. sausage (link) - optional

Cook until tender (at least 2 hours or 1 hour for chicken). Salt and pepper to taste. When black birds are tender, keep broth at a rolling boil and drop in pastry - piece by piece, shaking pot constantly to keep pastry pieces separated. When all is in pot, place cover on and let cook for approximately 10 minutes. Let set for about ten more minutes. Then eat.

How did that rhym go -   4 and 20 black birds baked in a pie?


I found it!

Sing a song of sixpence
AKA blackbirds in a pie
 
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,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!
 

[saltysenior]

Now thats funny I was born and raised in America and I have eaten everything you named except for robins 

me too........but did it come from a park

[marknut]

lol gotta love it, I prefer muscrat myself 

[saltysenior]

lol gotta love it, I prefer muscrat myself 

that is normal for a person from South Jersey..

[Ron]

 

[marknut]

haha, was just kidding.   

[jason22]

Not much different in North Central and North West Jersey either.  I once saw canned possum wihen I was up in Sussex County.  No joke

[Ron]

Go to [Sam Hill].

 

[marknut]

Not much different in North Central and North West Jersey either.  I once saw canned possum wihen I was up in Sussex County.  No joke

Lol haha thats rediculous

[johnproc]

How did that rhym go -   4 and 20 black birds baked in a pie?


I found it!

Sing a song of sixpence
AKA blackbirds in a pie
 
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,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!
 

Funny you mention that Sing a Song of Sixpence rhyme, Dreampixels - did you know that song was invented as a recruiting jingo for Blackbeard's pirates? True story! The 24 blackbirds were the amount of people they needed to man a ship, sixpence and a pocketful of rye whiskey was the pay, the "king and queen" were the vessels they were aiming to ransack, hence the "blackbirds" pecking off their nose and taking their "counting house" money. Crazy, huh?

[Dreampixels]

Thanks for the reply. No I did not have any idea of the origin other then Europe. When 25 blackbirds were needed for a pie in the recipe it just fired some nerons that were very dusty.............

Always interested in learning .......... thanks again.

DP