Baked Pig
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare
Truss the pig and place it in a baking dish.
Thoroughly coat the pig with the beaten egg white.
Bake and serve
Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven without basting or further attention until crisp.
Serve hot.
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 body of the dish, cooking down to tender meat under crisp skin.
- Egg white
- Forms a thin coating that helps the surface brown and crisp in the oven.
The step that matters
Coating the pig with egg white. The coating must cover the surface evenly, because egg white helps the skin set and brown. Missed areas may stay 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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