Pork Cutlets with Gherkin Sauce

Ingredients

• Cut and trim the pork cutlets
• a little oil
• salt
• nutmeg
• pepper
• the juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Marinade the cutlets for about an hour with oil, salt, nutmeg, pepper, and lemon juice.

2. 2

   Grill over a clear fire for about seven minutes on each side.

3. 3

   Serve with Gherkin sauce in the center of the dish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 117. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt, pepper, and a piece of cinnamon about three inches long ; add a few slices of gammon, a " bouquet garni,** and two bay-leaves; moisten with a pint of broth, and let it simmer very gently about two hours and a half, with plenty of live embers on the lid, taking care, meanwhile, to turn over the pieces of kid and to often baste them. When cooked dish it up, strain the liquor, remove all grease, pour it over the meat, and serve. CHAPTER XII. REMARKS ON PORK. The meat of the pig is rather indigestible. Nevertheless it occupies a very high position as a food in this as well as in other countries. Hippocrates, that famous anatomist, even considered pork to be the most nutritious of all flesh. Be that as it may, what should we do without pork ? Neither Italian nor French cooking could exist without it, at least, not as it ought to be. In Ireland, the pig is recognised as the ** gentleman '' who pays the rent. I do not think the fellow could hold such a financial position if he did not possess in himself a superior source of income to other four-footed animals. I do not know if his social position is as high in England ; but what I do know is, that he appears, under different forms, on the best spread tables in the kingdom, as well as on the poorest. He is therefore a necessity ; consequently I will now proceed to introduce his gastronomic qualities under the best possible forms. 558. PORK CUTLETS. GHERKIN SAUCE. Cut and trim the pork cutlets in the same way as veal or mutton cutlets ; marinade them for about an hour with a little oil, salt, nutmeg, and pepper, and the juice of a lemon

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