Scrabble

Ingredients

• four pounds of fresh pork
• one pint of sifted meal
• one tea-cupful of buckwheat flour
• salt
• black pepper
• red pepper
• pulverized sage

Method

1. 1

   Boil the pork until cooked, chop fine, and return to the pot with the boiling water.

2. 2

   Stir in meal and buckwheat flour, season, and cook until it leaves the sides of the pot.

3. 3

   Pour into crocks, cool, slice, and fry until brown.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SCRABBLE. Boil four pounds of fresh pork until thoroughly cooked. When ready to fall to pieces, take the meat from the pot, chop fine (skin, fat, and lean), remove all pieces of bone; put it back into the pot in the water in which it was boiled, stir into it one pint of sifted meal, one tea-cupful of buckwheat flour, season the whole with salt, black and red pepper, and pulverized sage to taste. Cook aud stir like mush. When the mixture leaves the sides of the vessel it is done. Pour into fiat crocks. When cold, cut into slices and fry to a nice brown. If vou wish, sprinkle a little dry meal over the slices before frying. Fresh pork is preferable, but salted or pickled pork can be used. Miss Jttlia Porter. PIG'S FOOT SOUSE. Boil the feet until very tender. When cold, cut all the meat and gristly part from the bones, chop fine. To one dozen feet allow one pound of tender-loin boiled tender and chopped fine ; season well with salt, black and red pepper. "When the meat is all prepared, take part of the water in which the feet were boiled which has become jellied, put into a pot with the meat and half a tea-cupful of good cider vinegar, stir all together thoroughly, put into flat crocks; when cold, pour over more vinegar and a few grains of black pepper

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