To barbecue a PIG

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Cook: 240 min Total: 240 min
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To barbecue a PIG. DRESS a pig of ten weeks old as if it were to be roasted, make a forcemeat of two ancho- vies, fix sage leaves, and the liver of the pig, all chopped very small; then put them into a marble mortar, with the crumbs of half a penny loaf, four ounces of butter, half a tea-spoonful of Chyan pepper, and half a pint of red wine, beat them all together to a paste, put it in your pig's belly, and sew it up, lay your pig down at a good distance before a large brisk fire, singe it well, put in your dripping-pan three bottles of red wine, baste it with the wine all the time it is roasting, when it is half roasted put under your pig two penny loaves, if you have not wine enough, put in more, when your pig is near enough, take the loaves and sauce out of your dripping-pan, put to the sauce one anchovy chopped small, a bundle of sweet herbs, and half a lemon, boil it a few minutes, then draw your pig, put a small lemon or apple in the pig's mouth, and a loaf on each side, strain your sauce, and pour it on them boiling hot, lay bar- berries and slices of lemon round it, and send it up whole to the table.—It is a grand bottom dish. It will take four hours roasting.
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