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Pigs in Blankets

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Pigs in Blankets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Take nice thin slices of bacon ; remove the rind and parboil ; take fine, plump, fresh oysters; drain; dip in beaten egg, and roll in cracker crumbs ; wrap each oyster in a slice of bacon, pinning to- gether with a wooden toothpick; place the pigs in a wire basket, and merse in hot fat until a delicate brown ; remove the picks, and send to the table hot.

By Warren, Pa. Presbyterian church. Second auxiliary missionary society. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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