Name: Leg of Pork
Ingredients: 1 leg of pork; coarse sea salt

Leg of Pork

Ingredients

1 leg of pork
coarse sea salt

Directions

Prepare

Remove the bone from the leg of pork and score the meat finely.

Cook

If roasting, season with coarse sea salt and roast until cooked through.
If corning, soak in a pickle for 10 to 12 days before use.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Leg of pork: Forms the main cut of meat, providing the bulk and flavour of the dish.
Coarse sea salt: Seasons the meat and, in roasting, helps build a savoury crust on the surface.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.