To stretch Sheeps guts

PERIOD: England, 17th century | SOURCE: The Cooks Guide: Or, Rare Receipts for Cookery, 1654 | CLASS: Authentic

DESCRIPTION: How to prepare sheep intestines for making sausages

To stretch Sheeps guts.

After they are clean scoured, lay them in water nine daies, shifting then once a day, and they will be very easie to fill, and when they are filled they will return to their wonted bigness.