Roast Pig

Ingredients

• Select a pig from three to five weeks old.
• stuff with hot mashed potatoes
• or stale bread
• seasoned with sage
• salt
• pepper
• onions
• one beaten egg

Method

1. 1

   Clean well, and stuff with hot mashed potatoes or stale bread, highly seasoned with sage, salt, pepper, and onions.

2. 2

   If bread be used, moisten with warm water, melted butter, and one beaten egg.

3. 3

   Stuff and sew.

4. 4

   Skewer the fore legs forward, and the hind legs backward.

5. 5

   Rub all over with butter, salt, pepper, and flour.

6. 6

   Put it into a pan with a little water; the oven should not be very hot at first.

7. 7

   Baste very often, and at first use melted butter to make the skin tender and soft.

8. 8

   Bake two and a half or three hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 146. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Eoast Pig. Select a pig from three to five weeks old. Clean well, and stuff* with hot mashed potatoes^ or stale hread^ highly seasoned with sage^ salt, pepper, and onions. If bread be used, moisten with warm water, melted butter, and one beaten egg

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.