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A hot baked meat of compounds.
TAke part of a leg of Lamb, and cut it into thin slices, make forced meat of the other part of it; then take two or three Chickens, and as many Pigeons, cut them in pieces, also take Quails, Larks, or other small fowl; sea∣son it all severally by it self, with a little Pepper small beaten, Cloves, Mace, Nutmeg, and Salt; take likewise a handful of sweet herbs and Parslee, a little Beef-suet, and a handful of Currans, mince all these finely together, with a handful of grated bread; season them as the meat, aforesaid, and knead them up with a little Butter into a ball; your aforesaid collops being opened, spread it on them, and roul them up into little Collers; you may make a Pie in the fashion of a Battalia, or a round Pie very large, but not high, then distribute all your Lamb in the bottom of your Pie, with your pieces of Chickens and Pigeons betwixt your Collops, and lay over that your Larks and Quails, &c. with your forced meat balls as big as a Wal∣nut, between your fowl, as also the bottoms of Artichokes boyled, Sparragrass Lettice or Grapes, in the Summer sea∣son; otherwise, Chesnuts, Dates, Skerrets, Potatoes, Pine-Apples, Pistaches; season some thin slices of Bacon with Pepper, Nutmeg, Time, and a little Sage, and put it all over your Pie in the vacant places; also some Lamb-stones, sweet-breads, Marrow, and the yolks of hard eggs; you may take but a few of all these ingredients, lest your Pie be very big: put Butter on your Pie, close him and bake him; for your Lear, dissolve two or three Anchovies in White-wine, a little strong Broth and Gravie, with a grated Nutmeg, and a little drawn Butter beaten up, with the yolks of two eggs; when your Pie is baked, put in your Lear and shake it together; if you please, you may put Oysters in it; this is a bastard Bisk Pie▪