In the house they must be treated in the same manner as the ortolan. |
My earliest food memory... Seeing my grandfather catch an ortolan. |
There is, however, some consolation for the rarity of the ortolan in England. |
Farther, he would give Monsieur an ortolan in a vine leaf, and a dish of stewed sorrel. |
The ortolan was so prized as a delicacy that it was almost hunted into extinction. |
The ortolan Bunting, Emberiza hortulana, and some others, are fattened for the table in 191 five or six days. |