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Modern Cookery

Use the pig on the day it is killed for best quality.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Modern Cookery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lay the pig flat on a serving platter.

  2. Position the head and ears at the ends and sides.

  3. Baste the pig with pure oil using a bunch of feathers.

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.

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