A FEW THINGS I OBJECT TO, THAT IS, NOT TO USE IN COOKERY COMESTIBLES
WHEN OUT OF, OR BEFORE, THEIR PROPER SEASON.
FOR Butcher’s Meat, see page 637, Kitchen at Home.
IN POULTRY. I never use turkeys before Michaelmas, and not after the
latter end of March.
Ditto turkey poults before the end of June, and not after September.
Capons, poulardes, pullets, and fowls, I use all the year round. I begin
about March with the spring chickens, till the beginning of July.
Geese are in season almost all the year round.
Goslings, or green geese, commence early in the spring, and are called
so till the end of September, thus there is hardly any difference
between them and the Michaelmas geese.
Ducks and ducklings the same.
Rabbits and pigeons may be used all the year round; but it is only in
the early part of the spring that I use tame rabbits.
Guinea-fowls are used when pheasants go out, which is about the latter
end of January, and are used till the end of May. Their eggs are very
good, more delicate than the common ones.