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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
PIG’S JAW, to Boil.— If the jaw has been dried, soak it a few hours in cold water ; if pickled, wash it ; make three holes in the thick part of the jaw, and all along the two sides ; fill the holes with herbs ; put into a clean cloth in cold water, heat slowly, and boil gently. With the herbs put salt, pepper, and a few bread crumbs. PIG, to Roast a Sucking Pig. — Get it when just killed ; this is of great advantage. Let it be scalded. Put some sago, crumbs of bread, salt, and pepper, into the belly, and sew it up. Observe to skewer the legs back, or the under part will not be crisp. Lay it to a brisk fire till dry ; then rub the pig with butter in every part. Dredge flour over it, and do not touch it again till ready to serve ; scrape off the flour with a blunt knife, rub it well with a buttered cloth, and take off the head while at the fire ; then take it up, cut it down the back and belly, lay it into the dish, and chop quickly the sage and bread very fine, and mix plenty of fine melted butter and a little flour. Put the sauce into the dish after the pig has been split down the back, and garnished with the ears and the two jaws. Many serve a suckling pig whole. Pour the gravy into the sauce ; and garnish with lemon or bread sauce and currants in a basin. PIGEONS, to Boil. —Wash clean ; chop some parsley small ; mix it with crumbs of bread, pepper, salt, and a bit of butter ; stuff the pigeons, and boil 15 minutes in some mutton broth or gravy. Boil some rice soft in milk ; when it begins to thicken, beat the yolks of two or three eggs, with two or three spoonfuls of cream, and a little nutmegBoiled Pigeons ; mix well with a bit of butter rolled in flour. PIGEONS, to Broil. — After cleaning, split the backs, pepper and . PIG PIG 304 salt them, and broil them very nicely ; pour over them either stewed or pickled mushrooms in melted butter, and serve as hot as possible. f PIGEONS, in Disguise. — Sea- son them with pepper and salt ; make a dice puff paste ; roll each pigeon in a piece of it ; close them well ; tie them in cloths separately, and mind the paste does not break ; boil them in plenty of water 1 % hour. When they are untied, be careful they* do not break ; put them into a dish, and pour a litde good gravy over them. PIGEONS, in Jelly. — Take some of the liquor in which a knuckle of veal has been boiled ; or boil a calf s foot ; put the broth into a pan with a blade of mace, sweet herbs, pepper, lemon peel, a slice of lean bacon, and the pigeonsPigeons in Jelly. Bake them, and let them stand to be cold. Season to taste before baking. When done, take them out of the liquor, cover them close to preserve the colour ; clear the jelly by boiling it with the whites of two eggs. Strain through a cloth dipped in boiling water. The fat must be perfectly removed be- fore it be cleared. Put the jelly over and round them rough.