How to Cook a Sucking Pig

This is one of our most esteemed traditional dishes, and the following is the way in which it was cooked when Charles Lamb sang its praises.

1. A sucking pig is in prime order for the spit when about three weeks old.
2. To be eaten in perfection it should be killed in the morning and eaten at dinner the same day. It loses part of its goodness every hour after it is killed; if not quite fresh no art can make the crackling crisp.