Stewed Fresh Pork

Ingredients

• a spare-rib or any fresh lean pork
• a little fat
• as much boiling water as will cover them
• pepper
• salt
• flour
• butter

Method

1. 1

   Fry the pork until lightly browned, then place in a stewpan and cover with boiling water.

2. 2

   Simmer gently until done.

3. 3

   Thicken the gravy with flour and butter, season, and serve with the pork.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1279. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salted, and cooked separately, and, if liked, a few roasting pieces also. To salt the pork, supposing it to weigh 200 pounds, make a powder by mixing thirty pounds of common salt, quarter of a pound of powdered mixed sjDice, and two ounces of ground pepper. Rub each piece of pork with the powder. Put a layer of powder at the bottom of the salting- tub, pack in closely a layer of pork, and sprinkle the powdered salt and spice over it. Place on this another layer of pork, and repeat until the pan is full. Put salt thickly on the top, pour a pint of cold water over the whole to assist the salt in dissolving, and put on the wooden cover. The pork may remain in this pickle from four to six months, and should then be placed in a single layer on a wicker hurdle, and left to dry in a cool airy place until it is wanted. Bacon thus pickled is the only meat ever tasted by large numbers of Frenchmen. Pork, Dangers of Eating {see Pork, Trichinatous). Pork, Fresh, Stewed.— Cut a spare-rib or any fresh lean pork into chops. Fry these in a little fat until they are lightly browned. Take them up, drain them, put them into a clean stewpan, and pour over them as much boiling water as will cover them. Let the liquid boil once more, then draw it to the POR ( 605 ) FOR side, and simmer very gently until the chops arc done enough. Thicken the gravy with flour and butter

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.