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Harper's cook book encyclopædia

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
sliced, and a bouquet of six sprigs of parsley, two branches of celery, three cloves, one bay - leaf, small branch of thyme. Add one level table -spoon- ful of salt, half a teaspoonful of black pepper. Bring to a fast boil, then cook slowly for four hours. When done, drain the feet, cut them in two lengthwise, remove all the bones, cut the meat in pieces half an inch wide and one inch long. Grind I lb. of fresh pork meat, season with one teaspoonful of salt, one salt- spoonful of black pepper, one table- spoonful of chopped parsley, and mix well. Cut in eight pieces some pigs’ caul or crepinette, being each of the size of two hands when spread on the meat-board. Divide your force- meat according to the quantity of pigs' feet. Put a thin layer of it on the spread crepinette, then arrange with care an appropriate quantity of pigs’ meat over the force-meat. Then fold gently the skin, giving to the pigs' feet the shape of pears. They must be very compact and tightly wrapped up in the crepinette. Put them over the gridiron, broil them six minutes on each side, and serve them on a hot platter. Pork and Beans. — Soak a quart of small white beans overnight. In the morning simmer them an hour with an onion. Take out the onion and put the beans in a bean-pot with Yz lb. of scored salt pork, with a little of the water in which the beans were boiled, and bake at least an hour. Another way : — Omit the onion, but add a table-spoonful of molasses when the beans are put into the pot, and bake at least two hours. Another way : — Do not parboil the beans after they have been soaked overnight, but bake them, with the pork and molasses, at least eight hours, adding hot water every hour except the last two hours. The beans must not be stirred. Pork Chops, Broiled. — Have six thick pork chops, about 3 lbs. in weight, trimmed in the French way. Pork, Loin of, Baked PORK Pork Tenderloins Flatten them slightly with the kitchen knife. Melt two table - spoonfuls of butter, put in it one teaspoonful of salt, one salt-spoonful of pepper. Mix well ; dip the chops in it on both sides. Have one pint of freshly made bread- crumbsPork Chops, Broiled ; roll the chops in these ; broil them six minutes on each side. Serve them with a paper ruffle on each han- dle. Pork, Loin of, Baked (German method). — Score the skin of a fresh loin of pork, sprinkle a teaspoonful of salt over it, and lay it in a baking- dish with half a cupful of stock or water ; baste liberally. When the meat is half cooked, sprinkle two table - spoonfuls of caraway seeds over it. The brown gravy which is in the dish may be served with the meat. The fat must be cleared from it, and it must be strained and sea- soned with pepper and salt. Time to bake, about twenty-five minutes for every pound.