Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

8 ea Quail; ready to cook 8 sl Toast
Salt freshly ground black 8 sl (Thin) baked country ham
-pepper; to taste Watercress sprigs; for
16 sl Salt pork or bacon -garnish

:1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
:2. Rinse the quail thoroughly and dry them well with paper towels.
Sprinkle them with salt and pepper to taste. Lay the birds in a
baking pan, and cover each one with salt pork or bacon.
:3. Place the pan in the oven and bake until tender, 25 to 30
minutes. A few minutes before the birds are done, remove the
salt pork so the breasts will brown.
:4. Place a slice of ham on each piece of toast, then put a quail on
each slice of ham.

From _The Heritage of Southern Cooking_ by Camille Glenn. Workman
Publishing, 1986 ISBN 0-89480-132-5 Typos by Jeff Pruett.
Submitted By JEFF PRUETT On 05-01-95

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