Friday, January 14, 2011

“Apple Pork”

“Apple Pork”

Apple Pork

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 03:05 AM PST

Published: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 4:57 AM

From the 1885 "Creole Cookery" by the Women's Christian Exchange, this recipe is easy but impressive. You will need cooking twine.

1885 recipe: This preparation of apples for fresh pork is a great improvement. Take a fillet of pork, rub it over with a little salt and pepper; score the outside skin; take out the bone and fill it with nice stewed apples, free of pairings and cores, nicely seasoned with nutmeg and sugar, with bits of rind of lemon then have ready some 2 dozen apples, pared, cored and cut in slices or quarters, sweetened well with sugar and flavored with lemon (a little of the juice added will be an improvement); put the pork into a large pot or iron bake oven; fill up with the cut apples the space all around adding just sufficient water to keep it from burning; stew or bake for 3 hours; when done, serve it on a clean dish and send it very hot to the table.

Modern version

6 to 8 sturdy cooking apples

2- to 3-pound boneless pork roast

Freshly grated nutmeg

Sugar

Salt, pepper and thyme.

Cooking oil

Juice and zest of one lemon

1/2 to 1 cup water or apple cider

Peel, core and thinly slice 1 apple. Peel, core and cut remaining apples into chunks.

Slice pork roast open horizontally almost all the way through, to open like a book. Layer sliced apple on one side, then season with nutmeg and sugar. Cover apples with the other side of the pork roast. Use kitchen twine to tie the roast together to hold in the apples. Season exterior of meat with salt, pepper and thyme.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Film the bottom of a Dutch oven with cooking oil, and heat. When hot, add the roast and sear well on all sides. Around the roast add apples, lemon juice and zest, and water or apple cider. Cover and set in oven. Braise for 2 to 3 hours, until roast measures 150 degrees on an instant read thermometer. Let sit for 10 minutes before slicing to serve. (Temperature should rise to 160 degrees during sitting.)

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