Bereft but hungry

I have been looking at a copy of French Cooking for English Homes, edited and with recipes by Chester, Chef at the Hotel Chatham, Paris (London, Thornton Butterworth, 1923). "This book does not profess to be a complete manual of cooking, but rather a collection of recipes with a few hints for the use of the servantless lady, who, in these difficult post-war days, is reduced to doing her own cooking."

From time to time you may care to share some of the contents. I offer this evening:

Pluviers Rotis (Roast Plovers).

Wrap each plover in a sheet of buttered paper, grill them on a skewer, and serve on fried toast.