Roast Young Pig

Ingredients

• For a month-old pig
• a cupful of bread crumbs
• one chopped onion
• two teaspoonfuls of sage
• three tablespoonfuls melted butter
• half grated a nutmeg
• half teaspoonful of salt
• two well beaten eggs
• half cup of warm milk

Method

1. 1

   Prepare pig and stuff with mixture of bread crumbs, onion, sage, butter, nutmeg, salt, and eggs.

2. 2

   Roast with salted water in the pan, basting with butter and drippings for about two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OAST YOUNG. PIG—For a month-old pig, well grown — ~ and plump, wash well and keep well wrapped in a wet cloth — until stuffing is ready. For stuffing take a cupful of bread — -erumbs, one chopped onion, two teaspoonfuls of sage, three — tablespoonfuls melted butter, pepper to taste, half grated a nutmeg, half teaspoonful of salt, two well beaten eggs. Mix — - all these ingredients, except the eggs, moisten with half cup — of warm mil

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