This recipe for skillet quail with mushroom gravy is an homage to my father-in-law, who always had a freezer full of tiny birds. He liked to drown them in Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup ...

After the biscuits have gone in the fridge, he bakes them for eight minutes in a 400°F oven, rotates the baking sheet, and then bakes for another eight minutes. They should come out light brown ...