Checking Pork Doneness
Cooking technique from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), page 229. Vision transcription from the scanned page; needs review.
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Ingredients
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Instructions
- Pork cooked with bacon, spinach, tomatoes, or onion sometimes remains pink even when well-done. The same is true of grilled or smoked pork. So, when cooking pork mixtures with the ingredients above, or grilling or smoking pork, use a meat thermometer.
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Historical recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), Meredith Corporation. View the cited page at the Internet Archive.
Image credit: Image attribution: "Pork thermometer.jpg" by USDA; license: Public domain; source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pork_thermometer.jpg. Representative photo; cropped/resized.
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