Barbacue a Leg of Pork

Ingredients

• two bottles of port wine
• the yolks of three eggs, boiled hard
• a % lb. of butter
• half a lemon
• a bunch of sweet herbs
• a tea-spoonful of lemon pickle
• a spoonful of ketchup
• one of tarragon vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Put the leg down to a good fire; baste with port wine while roasting.

2. 2

   After cooking, take the remaining liquid, add anchovies, pounded eggs, butter, lemon, herbs, lemon pickle, ketchup, and tarragon vinegar.

3. 3

   Boil for a few minutes, then prepare the pork for serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 394. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Barbacue a Leg of. — Put down the leg to a good fire ; into the dripping pan, put two bottles of port wine ; baste the pork with it all the time of roasting. When enough, take up what is left in the.pan ; put to it two anchovies, the yolks of three eggs, boiled hard, and pounded fine, with a % lb. of butter, and half a lemon, a bunch of sweet herbs, a tea-spoonful of lemon pickle, a spoonful of ketchup, and one of tarragon vinegar

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