How to Roast a Pound of Butter

 Futility Closet shares an artery clogging 1748 recipe from the third edition of The Art of Cookery, by a Lady.

Lay it (the butter) in salt and water two or three hours; then spit it, and rub it all over with crumbs of bread, with a little grated nutmeg; lay it to the fire, and as it roasts, baste it with the yolks of two eggs, and then with crumbs of bread, all the time it is roasting.

There's more to this recipe if you can stand reading on without feeling like you're drowning in a fat of hot fat. It's not surprising that this culinary creation is as extinct as the Dodo bird.

Thanks Bruce!