MAKE a good puff-paste crust, cut your meat into pieces, sea-
son it to your palate with pepper, salt, mace, cloves, and nut-
meg finely beat; lay it into your crust with a few lambstones and
forcemeat balls seasoned as your meat, some oysters and force-
meat balls, hard yolks of eggs, and the tops of asparagrass two
inches long, first boiled green; put butter all over the pye, put
on the lid and set it in a quick oven an hour and a half, and then
have ready the liquor, made thus: take a pint of gravy, the
oyster liquor, a gill of red wine, and a little grated nutmeg; mix
all