Stuffed and Roasted Calf's Liver

Ingredients

• 1 fresh calf's liver
• calf's liver
• fat of bacon
• sweet herbs
• grated bread
• spice
• pepper
• salt
• fat bacon
• butter
• gravy sauce

Instructions

1. Take a fresh calf's liver and make a hole in it with a large knife run in lengthways, but not quite through.
2. Have ready a forced meat, or stuffing, made of part of the liver parboiled, fat of bacon minced very fine, and sweet herbs powdered;
3. add to these some grated bread and spice finely powdered, with pepper and salt.
4. With this stuffing fill the hole in the liver.
5. The liver must be larded with fat bacon, and then roasted, flouring it well and basting with butter till it is enough.
6. This is to be served up hot, with gravy sauce having a little wine in it.