Salt Pork, Cream Gravy (Southern Style)

Ingredients

• Salt Pork (sweet cured)
• Barley Flour
• Corn Starch
• White Pepper
• 1 Tablespoon Bacon Fat
• 3 Tablespoons Melted Fat
• 2 Tablespoons Corn Starch
• V/2 Cups Milk
• Salt

Method

1. 1

   Cut pork into half-inch slices, put in saucepan, cover with cold water and bring to boiling point; drain; add cold water and let stand a few minutes.

2. 2

   Mix 2 parts flour to 1 part cornstarch; season with pepper.

3. 3

   Roll pork in mixture and place in frying pan with hot bacon fat.

4. 4

   Pour off fat as it melts, brown and fry till reduced one-half.

5. 5

   Cook cornstarch in hot fat for three minutes without browning; add milk and salt and cook until smoothly thickened.

6. 6

   Pour over the pork.

7. 7

   Serve for breakfast with baked potatoes and hot biscuit.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The bride's cook book (1915) by Edgar William Briggs, page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SALT PORK, CREAM GRAVY (Southern Style) Salt Pork (sweet cured) Barley Flour Corn Starch White Pepper 1 Tablespoon Bacon Fat 3 Tablespoons Melted Fat 2 Tablespoons Corn Starch V/2 Cups Milk

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