To Boil Leg of Pork
Ingredients
Directions
Place the leg of pork in a pot with the skin side facing up.
Put a plate below the pork to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
Boil the pork until fully cooked.
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
- Leg of pork
- Provides the main meat, which becomes firm and tender as its proteins set during long simmering.
The step that matters
Boil the pork until fully cooked. Pork must be cooked through, so the thickest part needs to reach a safe internal temperature. Stopping early leaves raw meat near the bone, while overcooking makes it dry and stringy.
“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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