Lettuce ‘Farcite’
Cut off the roots, wash, and clean five or six lettuce heads. Put them into boiling water for five minutes, then fill the inside with force-meat. Tie the tops together, and put them in a sauce-pan, adding a quarter of a pint of Marsala sauce, and the same of good white broth. Add salt and pepper to taste, cover the sauce-pan with buttered paper, and cook in the oven for fifteen minutes. Place the lettuces on a hot dish (having untied them), pour the sauce over, and serve hot.