Pluck, singe, draw, and truss them, season with salt and pepper, roast for about a half an hour in a brisk oven, basting often with butter. When done, place on a dish together with bread crumbs fried brown and arranged in small heaps. Gravy should be served in a tureen apart.

Partridge Pie

Line a deep baking-dish with veal cutlets, and over them place thin slices of ham and a seasoning of pepper and salt; pluck, draw, wipe, and quarter four partridges, rub each part with a seasoning of pepper, salt, minced parsley, and butter; put in a baking-dish, pour over them a pint of strong soup-stock, line the edges of the dish with a light puff-paste, cover with the same, brush over with the yolk of an egg, and bake one hour. If the paste is in danger of becoming too brown, cover with a thick paper.