Suckling Pig with Apple Dressing

Ingredients

• a well-cleaned suckling pig
• 1 even tablespoonful salt
• 1 cupful boiling water
• 12 small sound red apples
• the juice of 1 lemon
• 2 ounces gelatin
• 2 cupfuls sugar
• 1 tablespoonful lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Season pig inside with salt, fill with apple dressing, sew up.

2. 2

   Roast in a pan with boiling water, cover with buttered paper, baste frequently for about 2 hours.

3. 3

   Prepare apple timbales with boiled apples in gelatin mixture, serve with pig.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 223. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Snckling Pig with Apple Dressing.— Season the inside of a well- cleaned suckling pig with 1 even tablespoonful salt, let stand 1 hour ; then fill with apple dressing, described below ; sew up, tie with strings, so that it rests on its 4 legs, or skewer them into proper position. Lay the little animal in a large roasting pan, pour 1 cup- ful boiling water into the pan ; cover the entire pig with buttered paper ; place the pan in a medium-hot oven, baste frequently, re- placing the paper each time, roast about 2 hours. When ready to serve, lay the pig on a warm dish, remove strings or skewers and put a small red apple in its mouth, and garnish with apple timbales, prepared as follows : Peel and core 12 small sound red apples, lay them in cold water, with the juice of 1 lemon ; put the peel and core of the apples in a saucepan, cover with 3 pints water, and boil tender, then strain through cheese cloth. Put the apple liquid in a wide saucepan, place it over the fire ; as soon as it boils put in as many apples as will conveniently go in, cook until a straw will penetrate easily through them, then remove carefully ; when all are boiled in this way set aside to cool. Strain the liquid through a napkin and measure it (there should be 3 pints ; if not, add suffi- cient water to make up the deficiency). Soak 2 ounces of gelatin for a few minutes in cold water, then add it to the apple liquid ; add 2 cupfuls sugar, 1 tablespoonful lemon juice

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