Name: To Boil a Leg of Pork
Ingredients: 1 leg of pork (about 8 pounds, salted for 2-3 weeks); cold soft water

To Boil a Leg of Pork

Ingredients

1 leg of pork (about 8 pounds, salted for 2-3 weeks)
cold soft water

Directions

Place the leg of pork in cold soft water.
Boil for 3 hours and 15 minutes.
Remove the skin before serving.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Pork leg: Salting for 2-3 weeks firms the meat and seasons it through, while boiling cooks it until tender.

“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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To Boil a Leg of Pork