Onions peel, halve and in strips cut. Cut the bacon into fine cubes. Clean cabbage, remove outer leaves. Halve cabbage, remove stalk. Cut or slice cabbage leaves into fine strips.
Wash the chicken, rub dry. Tie the legs together with kitchen string, season with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a roaster. Sauté guinea fowl thoroughly all around, remove from the roaster.
Roast the bacon and onions in hot frying fat until golden brown. Add cabbage and bay leaf, steam briefly, deglaze with wine and 200 ml water, season with salt and pepper. Put guinea fowl back into the roasting pan on top of the cabbage and bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see
manufacturer) braise for about 1 hour. Remove from the oven, put the chicken aside. Season red cabbage with salt, pepper and sugar and arrange in a flat dish. Place the guinea fowl on top. Garnish with fresh bay leaves if desired.