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Leg of Pork, Roasted

A roasted leg of pork seasoned with coarse sea salt, served with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Leg of Pork, Roasted

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Score the leg of pork.

  2. Place it on a spit and roast for about two hours, depending on size.

  3. Serve with gravy in the dish.

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

Leg of pork
Forms the main body of the dish, providing the bulk of the meat and its rich flavour as it roasts.

“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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