Ingredients
4 pork chops, 1/2 thick
1 salt & pepper
1 shortening for browning
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup uncooked rice, not the quick
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup peeled and chopped tart appl
1/2 cup orange sections
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp poultry seasoning
Directions
Trim excess fat from pork chops; season lightly with salt and pepper.
Brown quickly in shortening. Pour from skillet all but 1 T. of
drippings. Saute onion in the fat. Combine all remaining ingredients
except pork chops with the onion; mix well, then pour into a greased
2 qt. shallow casserole. Arrange chops on this mixture. Cover & bake
at 350 degrees F about 45 minutes. Makes 4 servings. Ann in NJ
Servings: 4 servings
Apple & Orange Pork Chops Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Apple; Fruit; Meat; Pork
The History of Recipes
Historians have tracked the existence of recipes far back into distant history, certainly as far back into recorded history as early Egypt, and potentially, even further back. Interesting though that maybe, generally, these old cook books were just very simple pictorial instructions for meal preparation.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to food historians is a collection of stone tablets in ancient Sumerian which show the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made people feel `exhilarated, wonderful and blissful`. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times we find a couple of recipe books which were published in the fourteenth century : a book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these two books are not about the curry that we all know today, but instead descriptions of the types of food on the menues of the upper classes of those days. During the succeeding few hundred years, the powerful families of the West competed to offer the most extravagent meals, and because of this chefs and their recipe collections were much in demand. Nevertheless, it was during the 1800s that fine cooking and cookery books reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated the best years of their lives to collating, verifying, and recording recipes of the day. Like it or not, the introduction of television brought us TV cookery programs and the demand for the accompanying recipe books. And that pretty much brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, allowing us all to search through massive numbers of recipes like those on our web site. |
We hope you enjoy this Apple & Orange Pork Chops recipe.
