Pig's Pettitoes

Ingredients

• A thin slice of bacon
• 1 onion
• 1 blade mace
• 6 peppercorns
• 3-4 sprig thyme
• 1 pint gravy
• pepper and salt to taste
• thickening of butter and flour

Instructions

1. Put the liver, heart, and pettitoes into a stewpan with the bacon, mace, peppercorns, thyme, onion, and gravy, and simmer these gently for 1/4 hour;
2. then take out the heart and liver, and mince them very fine.
3. Keep stewing the feet until quite tender, which will be in from 20 minutes to 1/2 hour, reckoning from the time that they boiled up first;
4. then put back the minced liver, thicken the gravy with a little butter and flour, season with pepper and salt, and simmer over a gentle fire for 5 minutes, occasionally stirring the contents.
5. Dish the mince, split the feet, and arrange them round alternately with sippets of toasted bread, and pour the gravy in the middle.