My original Christmas order of “Barbarie” duck through a French deli supplier fell through. As far as I know Hong Kong Customs didn’t let it in. Something to do with bird flu, not Corvid, I don’t know. So I was offered a capon instead. Marvellous. But what exactly is a capon? I asked Twitter.
It’s a cap on, a cape on, a coupon, a cock and a hen.
Caponata
And almost immediately I got a response. Good old Twitter.
So I could expect, a very big neutered hen, a castrated rooster, a small chicken. They can be a bit tough, old and scrawny but also very fine, tender and juicy eating. A cockerel that can’t and a rooster without pronouns that self-identifies as a chook. A cock with no balls (do birdies have balls? Apparently one internal teste.)
Peasants doff them and it’s what Batman wears, but it’s not a robin.
Some have them every year, some had fond childhood memories of devouring capon, some acknowledge that they’re not available in the UK because of animal welfare issues. Some are force-fed, which made me feel sad.
What I received in the end was a guinea fowl. Anyone know how to cook a guinea fowl? I’ll ask Twitter.
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I hope that you enjoy the guinea fowl.
Thank you. It’s years since I ate pintadeau, let alone cooked it.
But isn’t caponata a vegetable dish, varying from one region to another, with maybe fish in the Sicilian one?
This arrived.
But isn’t caponata a veggie dish, varying from one region to another, maybe with fish added in a Sicilian one?
As did this
But isn’t caponata an Italian veggie dish with regional variations including fish in Sicily? Tried to add this comment before. 😅 Hoping 3 x is scheepsrecht (3rd time lucky)
It is indeed!
Good old British Guinea Fowl. None of your French muck!
Beuh non! Il est venu directement de la Bresse.