Baked Pig
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Prepare the pig as you would for roasting and truss it.
Place the pig in the dish you will use for baking.
Coat and bake
Thoroughly coat the pig with the beaten egg white.
Bake in the oven without basting or further attention.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- Pig
- Forms the main mass of the dish, so its size and trussing set how evenly it cooks.
- Egg white
- Forms a thin coating that helps the surface set and brown during baking.
The step that matters
Thoroughly coat the pig with the beaten egg white. An even coating gives the surface a uniform film that sets and browns evenly, so missed spots may bake pale or dry.
“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.
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