A mythical beast created from half a pig and half a cockerel

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Curious Cookbook: Viper Soup, Badger Ham, Stewed Sparrows and 100 More Historic Recipes

By Peter Ross

Published 2012

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Method

Cockatrice

Take a capon [a castrated cockerel], and scald him; draw [eviscerate] him completely, and cut him in two around the waist. Take a pig, and scald him, and d