The Boston cooking-school cook book

lean and fat meat, minced, highly seasoned, and forced into thin casings made of the prepared entrails. _Little pigs_ (four weeks old) are sometimes killed; dressed, and roasted whole. Pork contains the largest percentage of fat of any meat. When eaten fresh it is the most difficult of digestion, and although found in market through the entire year, it should be but seldom served, and then only during the winter months. By curing, salting, and smoking, pork is rendered more wholesome. _Bacon_, next to butter and cream, is the most easily assimilated of all fatty foods. Pork Chops Wipe chops, sprinkle with salt and pepper, place in a hot frying-pan, and cook slowly until tender, and well browned on each side. Pork Chops with Fried Apples Arrange Pork Chops on a platter, and surround with slices of apples, cut one-half inch thick, fried in the fat remaining in pan. Roast Pork Wipe pork, sprinkle with salt and pepper, place on a rack in a dripping-pan, and dredge meat and bottom of pan with flour. Bake in a moderate oven three or four hours, basting every fifteen minutes with fat in pan. Make a gravy as for other roasts. Pork Tenderloins with Sweet Potatoes Wipe tenderloins, put in a dripping-pan, and brown quickly in a hot oven; then sprinkle with salt and pepper, and bake forty-five minutes, basting every fifteen minutes. =Sweet Potatoes.= Pare six potatoes and parboil ten minutes, drain, put in pan with meat, and cook until soft, basting when basting meat. Breakfast Bacon See Liver and Bacon, page 207. Fried Salt Pork with Codfish Cut fat salt pork in one-fourth inch slices, cut gashes one-third inch apart in slices, nearly to rind. Try out in a hot frying-pan until brown and crisp, occasionally turning off fat from pan. Serve around strips of codfish which have been soaked in pan of lukewarm water and allowed to stand on back of range until soft. Serve with Drawn Butter Sauce, boiled potatoes, and beets. Broiled Ham Soak thin slices of ham one hour in lukewarm water. Drain, wipe, and broil three