Farce pour le Cochon de Lait (Stuffing for Sucking Pig)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Farce gratin made with the sucking pig's liver
- Sausage meat — the same weight as the farce
- Breadcrumb
- Eggs — 2
- Fine Champagne — 1 decilitre
- Wild thyme (serpolet)
Instructions
- With the pig's liver, prepare a farce gratin, taking care simply to stiffen the liver.
- Add to it the same weight of sausage meat, 200 grammes of soaked and squeezed breadcrumb, 2 eggs, 1 decilitre of fine Champagne and 3 grammes of wild thyme (or thyme in its absence).
- Fill the sucking pig with this farce.
- Sew up the skins of the belly and shape the pig on the roasting tray or on the spit.