one of the most peculiar recipes I’ve heard of…

Suckling pig stuffed with eel.

…Like.. What?!

Norman Douglas in ‘Venus in the Kitchen, or  love’s cookery book’ states ‘the eel goes very well with pork, because it is among fish what the pig is among quadrupeds’. He suggests stuffing a 10-15 day old suckling pig with a boned, vinegar-washed eel, pepper corns, cloves and sage…