Geese and goslings are prepared, cooked, and served like ducks, in the following ways: roasted and baked, and served with garnitures, with cranberry-sauce, currant-jelly, apple-sauce, with a border, olives, oranges, peas, or turnips; in croquettes and in salmis.
It is boned, cooked, and served, like a boned turkey.
In Civet.—Clean, prepare, and cut the goose in pieces, removing most of the fat, and then cook, and serve it like rabbit in civet.
It takes a little longer than to cook a rabbit, but makes a very good dish.
When the civet is properly made, it does not taste like goose.
GUINEA-FOWLS.
A young Guinea-bird is good, but an old one is hardly fit to be eaten.
Guinea-fowls are prepared and served like prairie-hens.