advice on cooking pigeon

[melvyn]

As with all game birds pigeon might smell after a few days but it takes a long time to go off,an old game keeper I know used to hang his pigeons till they got maggots,then he just brushed them off and cooked em.Tasty.

[Mick Stockbridge]

Whenever I have a burn up at the yard I always have a shotgun handy to drop what I can and cook and eat it while it's still twitching. Just carve off the breast and skewer it with a live twig and dig the other end into the ground with the meat over the embers........lovely.

[Bomag]

The easiest way to breast a pigeon is to "rip and flip"

 

Twist off both wings where they join the main body.

Pluck the feathers from the neck area, then rip open the neck skin.

Hold the pigeon in one hand, head pointing up your arm, and push both thumbs into the chest cavity.

With the back part of the body in your right hand and the breast against your left, pull with you left thumb whilst pushing with you left fingers in an upward motion (like pairing up socks)

 

You will be left with a clean, skinless breast on the bone, making it much easier to either freeze or to cut the breasts of the breast bone.

[RobRainford]

Bash them over the head first. So they don't feel the above! ^^^