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it until it is crusted to a light brown. It is then brushed again with pork fat
and after roasting for 1 hour, served hot without any gravy, putting a lemon
between its jaws. As a side dish serve the following: First boil the lungs and
then chop them finely together with the liver and the heart and simmer in butter
until it is done. Stew some eschalots in butter in which a spoonful of flour has
been lightly browned, stir with some meat broth to a thin pulp, add salt,
nutmeg, ground cloves, lemon juice and some chopped lemon peel and cook all of
this until done.
135. How to cook a smoked Pig's Head. Cover it over night with water, wash it
off the next morning with warm water and then cook slowly in boiling water for 3
hours with the meaty side to the bottom. Is most appropriate with sourkrout and
salted beans.
136. Pickled Pork is cooked in the same manner as directed for pickled beef (D,
No. 58).
137. Pork Sausages. Take some nice streaky pork and chop it very fine, add salt,
nutmeg and lemon peel or chopped eschalots, a few eggs, some grated wheat bread
and a little cream. Mix well together and then roll between the hands into
little sausages or balls, dredge with cracker crumbs and fry in butter. Serve
with spinach and most varieties of cabbage.
138. Pork Chops should be out from a young pig. Prepare like veal cutlets, but
they should fry slower and 2 minutes longer. They are an agreeable accompaniment
to all kinds of cabbages.
139. Chopped Pork Cutlets. To make 4 cutlets take 1 pound from the neck of a
young pig, chop it fine together with some sale and pepper, divide into 4 parts,
mould into the form of cutlets and cross-hatch the surface somewhat, by means of
which they can be easily breaded. Then beat up 1 egg with a tablespoontful of
water which will be sufficient for 6 cutlets, have ready plenty of grated bread
crust or stale grated wheat bread, heat butter or kidney suet as directed in A,
17, dip the cutlets in egg so that they will be covered all over, turn them in
bread crumbs and fry quickly in an
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