In your plate, the Capon

Still rare a few years ago, the capon was installed as a serious competitor to the traditional950.htm "> Christmas turkey. The capon is a rooster birth. Until the age of 6 to 10 weeks, he frolics freely in large tracts of land, allowing it to develop their muscles all more it is well fed grain. Then he is castrated and fattened for his one special.

A few weeks before slaughter, capons are enclosed in special cages, the spruces, which are placed in the dark.

Capons are fed grain andlow "href =" / dietetics, food-products-dairy-milk-NN_2412-121-950.htm "> skimmed milk, which makes their flesh melting and particularly tasty. Sedentary lifestyle and darkness are the fat capons and develops remains very white, as their flesh.

The production cost of the capon was more or less fall into oblivion: there are another twenty years, it was a very rare commodity. He reappeared, reviveded by the poultry of Bresse. Before his success, the producers of the Landes and others have followed suit.