Roast Pig

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (4)
For the pig
For the sauce
Instructions (6)
  1. Take a fat pig, cut off his head, slit and truss him up like a lamb.
  2. When he is slit through the middle and skinned, parboil him a little.
  3. Throw some parsley over him.
  4. Roast it and drudge it.
  5. Lay your sauce in half a pound of butter, and a pint of cream, stirred all together till it is smooth.
  6. Pour it over, and send it to table.
Original Text
TAKE a fat pig, cut off his head, slit and truss him up like a lamb; when he is slit through the middle and skinned, parboil him a little, then throw some parsley over him, roast it and drudge it. Lay your sauce in half a pound of butter, and a pint of cream, stirred all together till it is smooth; then pour it over, and send it to table.
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