To Roast Pheasants Recipe

Little birds fly about with the _true pheasant taint_,

And the geese are all born with the liver[56-*] complaint.

MOORE.



Chop some fine raw oysters, omitting the head part, mix them with salt

and nutmeg, and add some beaten yolk of egg to bind the other

ingredients. Cut some very thin slices of cold ham or bacon, and cover

the birds with them, then wrap them in sheets of paper well buttered,

put them on the spit, and roast them before a clear fire.

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