faisan

This treatment was called mortification or faisandage after the pheasant, faisan, and had two purposes: it tenderized the meat, and further heightened its “wild” flavor.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

This treatment was called mortification or faisandage after the pheasant, faisan, and had two purposes: it tenderized the meat, and further heightened its “wild” flavor.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Fête noble en Bourgogne au XVe siècle: Le banquet du faisan 1454; aspects politiques, sociaux et culturels.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

“Nourritures et symboles dans le Banquet du faisan et dans Jehan de Saintrê.”

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

Fête noble en Bourgogne au XVe siècle: Le banquet du faisan 1454; aspects politiques, sociaux et culturels.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

“Nourritures et symboles dans le Banquet du faisan et dans Jehan de Saintrê.”

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, gave an allegorical entertainment at Lille in which Holy Church solicited the help of knights who pronounced the most extravagant vows before God and a pheasant (sur le faisan).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

It was he whom Pope Nicholas V wished to place at the head of the new crusade he was planning, and during a sumptuous feast at which he made the celebrated voeu du faisan, Philip promised to take the cross.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

"L'Europe s'émut enfin: Nicholas V. prêcha la croisade .... à Lille, le duc de Bourgoyne fit apparaître, dans un banquet, l'image de l'Eglise désolée et, selon les rites de la chevalerie, jura Dieu, la Vierge, les dames, et _le faisan_, qu'il irait combattre les infidèles."

Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

I can credit even the account of the dinner which Madame de Bavière affirms she saw eaten by Lewis the Fourteenth; _viz_. "quatre assiettes de différentes soupes; un faisan tout entier; un perdrix; une grande assiette pleine de salade; du mouton coupé dans son jus avec de l'ail; deux bons morceaux de jambon; une assiette pleine de patisserie! du fruit et des confitures!"

Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808