Distinctive Dinners: Doch Pork
Pork Chops in Creamy Peppercorn Sauce | Spaetzle | Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers
Pork Chops in Creamy Peppercorn Sauce
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | The Other Meat Entrée |
| Meal: | Doch Pork (Distinctive Dinners) |
| 1 | Tb | pepper, fresh cracked |
| 4 | medium | pork chops, boneless center cut |
| 6 | oz | chicken broth |
| 1 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 3 | oz | cream, heavy |
| 2 | Tb | Worcestershire sauce, white |
| 6 | medium | mushrooms, sliced |
| 1 | Tb | cranberries, dried |
| 1 | pinch | salt to taste |
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Sprinkle pork chops with pepper to taste; brown pork chops in heavy, ovenproof pan. Place in 350-degree oven for 10-15 minutes. Remove pan from oven, remove chops to plate, deglaze pan with chicken broth, and add, mushrooms, Worcestershire sauce, butter and cream. Add cranberries, salt to taste. Reduce by 1/4th. Place chops back in pan, flip, and serve with gravy on top.
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Spaetzle
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Starch / Pasta |
| Meal: | Doch Pork (Distinctive Dinners) |
| 2 | large | egg |
| 1.5 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
| 0.5 | cup | milk, 2 % |
| 1 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.25 | tsp | baking powder |
| 2 | Tb | butter, salted |
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Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Mix the ingredients in a bowl; the dough will be very loose. Place a colander over the boiling water and pour the batter 1/4th at a time in to the colander and press through with a spatula. Allow spaetzle to cook until light and fluffy, a few minutes. Remove to a bowl filled with cold water. Drain spaetzle; heat butter in a frying pan, add spaetzle and toss to heat.
Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Salad |
| Meal: | Doch Pork (Distinctive Dinners) |
| 2 | large | cucumbers, sliced |
| 1.5 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 1.5 | cup | vinegar, cider |
| 2 | Tb | onions, sliced |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Cut cucumbers into thin slices. Dissolve sugar in vinegar on low heat. Thinly slice red onion. Add cucumbers, onions and liquid in a bowl and let marinate for 1 hour. Salt and Pepper to taste.
