Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 kg Pork belly (raw, not too
-fatty) ( a generous 2 lbs)
Salt and pepper to taste
1 Yellow turnip [substitute:
-carrot]
1 Onion
5 Cloves garlic
Stuffing:
100 g Plain breadcrumbs (3 1/2 oz)
1 bn Parsley
100 g Smoked ham, diced (3 1/2 oz)
100 g Ground meat (3 1/2 oz)
1 pn Sugar
1 tb Marjoram
1 Onion, finely chopped, and
-sauteed till transparent
Salt and pepper to taste

Cut a pocket into the pork belly, and lightly season the inside.
Combine the stuffing ingredients and mix well. Stuff the pork belly
with this mixture, then sew the opening shut with cooking twine.
Score the fatty rind with a knife. Rub the pork belly all around
with seasonings. Roast, along with the sliced turnip, until crispy.
The meat will have to be turned and basted several times.

Serves 4.

From: D'SCHWAEBISCH' KUCHE' by Aegidius Kolb and Leonhard Lidel,
Allgaeuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten. 1976. (Translation/Conversion:
Karin Brewer) Posted by: Karin Brewer, Cooking Echo, 9/92

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