This is an excerpt from A Book of Cookrye
(England, 1591)
The original source can be found at
Mark and Jane Waks' website
To bake a Pigge. Take your Pig and flea it, and draw out all that clean which is in his bellye, and wash him clean, and perboyle him, season it with Cloves, mace, nutmegs, pepper & salt, and so lay him in the paste with good store of Butter, then set it in the Oven till it be baked inough.
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