Birds
To Roast Pheasants
Little birds fly about with the true pheasant taint,
And the geese are all born with the liver56-* 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.