For the preparation, proceed as for the woodcock.
Cause to set before a fierce fire, and cook for nine minutes.
[1979—GRIVES ET MERLES DE CORSE (Thrushes and Corsican Blackbirds)]
Truss them, and wrap them in slices of bacon. Insert a juniper berry into the thrushes. Roast before a moderately fierce fire for ten or twelve minutes, and dish on small cushions of fried bread.
Serve a very short gravy separately.
[1980—MAUVIETTES (Larks)]
Wrap them in very thin slices of bacon, and impale them on a skewer, or discard the slices of bacon, and merely impale them on a skewer, separating them by [blanched] squares of breast of bacon.
Roast for ten minutes before a fierce fire.
Dish on small fried [croûtons], with quarters of lemon and bunches of watercress all round.