

Germanische Rest- und Trümmersprachen Volume 3 of Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde. ^ Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand, "Die Malbergischen Glossen, eine frühe Überlieferung germanischer Rechtsprache," in Beck, Heinrich (1989).Historische inleiding tot het recht, Volume 1. The latter remains popular in the cuisine of the Southern United States.

include slow roasting in an oven or (as in a Hawaiian-style pig roast) in a pit. Other uses for the suckling pig in the U.S. During this festival, as its name implies, suckling pigs are roasted. The suckling pig is used in Cajun cuisine in the southern U.S., where the Cochon de Lait festival is held annually in the small town of Mansura, Louisiana. It is often stuffed with various fruits such as apples and plums, together with butter and breadcrumbs. In Sweden suckling pig is called spädgris, it is usually cooked in the oven, or sometimes roasted directly over the fire. It can be roasted in the oven or grilled, and is often served at festive occasions such as Oktoberfest. Suckling pig is known in German and Austrian cuisine as Spanferkel. Russian Navy maintains a tradition of presenting a roast piglet (or several) to the crew of a ship returning from deployment. It also accompanies goose as the traditional Christmas feast of families in Russia and Serbia. The European cuisines of Romania, Portugal ( leitão), Spain, Germany, Austria, Albania, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia and Georgia favor it highly as well. Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/module on The most popular preparation can be found in northern Spain, namely Segovia. There are various preparations for suckling pig in Western and Asian cuisines. Animal rights groups like PETA argue that this makes their exploitation and suffering in the hands of the factory farming industry especially unethical. Pigs are regarded to be highly intelligent social animals. The sows, mother pigs, are in many countries kept in gestation crates or farrowing crates, which render them nearly immobile and unable to interact with their newborn offspring. Practices such as "thumping," killing piglets by repeatedly swinging them against a concrete wall or floor, is a legal method of euthanasia on hog farms in Canada, the US and European countries supplying suckling pigs, along with Asian countries. Further, investigations by media and animal rights groups have uncovered animal cruelty and inhumane conditions related to the farming of suckling pigs. It is often argued that the use of pigs for human consumption is unethical, especially in the case of young animals removed from their mothers earlier than weaning would happen in nature: natural weaning takes place at around 12 weeks of age, whereas suckling pigs are slaughtered at 2 to 6 weeks of age. These glosses in Frankish, the so-called Malbergse Glossen, are considered the earliest attested words in Old Dutch. "If someone has stolen a suckling pig and this is proven against him, the guilty party will be sentenced to 120 denarii which adds up to three solidi (Latin coins)." The words chrane calcium are written in Frankish calcium (or galza in other manuscripts) is the gloss for "suckling pig" porcellum lactantem.

chrane calcium hoc est) CXX dinarios qui faciunt solidos III culpabilis iudicetur. As an example of a law governing the punishment for theft, Title 2, article 1, is, in Latin, Si quis porcellum lactantem furaverit, et ei fuerit adprobatum (malb. The suckling pig, specifically, appears in early texts such as the sixth-century Salic law. Since the pig is one of the first animals domesticated by human beings for slaughter, many references to pigs are found in human culture. There are many ancient recipes for suckling pig from Roman and Chinese cuisine.
