Ben Franklin, Hauntings, PigMen, and Meatballs Two Ways

Enjoy meatball recipes from 1775 (a meat and vegetarian version) as we explore Ben Franklin hauntings in Pennsylvania and PigMen in Texas.  

Bonus: Bad acting and amateur cooking tips!  You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fhsacn00ok&t=485s

Vegetarian meatballs:
Crumb a pennyloaf, add to it eight ounces of butter or beef suet, mincinced very fine, lemon-peel, parsley, and a bit of onion shred fine.  Season it with pepper, salt, nutmeg, wet it with two eggs, roll it in your hands into a paste, then make it in small balls the size of a nutmeg; fry them in butter.
Recommend 6-8 ounces of breadcrumbs for the pennyloaf, the same amount of butter and about 1/3 cup of onion, maybe ½ cup. 

Meat meatballs:
Chop an equal quantity of any tender Meat with Beef or Mutton suet, and the same quantity of crumbs of bread, with lemon-peel, parsley, and onion chopped small; season it with pepper, salt, nutmeg and cloves: Wet it with eggs, and work it up together, then roll into small balls.  Fry them in butter. 

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Further reading and references:
Elizabeth Cleland’s 1775 book, “A New and Easy Method of Cookery"
Benjamin Franklin, "The Art of Eating"
Townsends making meatballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usA-aMmQ1zc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_National_Memorial
https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/emblematic-franklin
https://www.thehairpin.com/2016/07/searching-for-ben-franklins-dancing-ghost/
Travel Channel: Benjamin Franklin https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/historic-us-ghosts
https://www.wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/index.php
https://dentonhaunts.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/the-pigman-of-bonnie-brae-bridge/ 

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