Dougherty Family Recipe Box

Category: Pork

  • Honey Baked Lentils

    Ingredients

    • 2 1/3 cups lentils
    • 5 cups water
    • 2 tablespoons salt
    • 1 cup water
    • 1/2 cup chopped onions
    • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
    • 1 teaspoon dry mustard
    • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
    • 4 slices bacon
    • 1/3 cup honey

    Method

    1. Combine lentils, 5 cups water, and salt in a dutch oven.
    2. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
    3. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 30 minutes.
    4. Preheat oven to 350°F.
    5. In a separate bowl, combine 1 cup water, onion, soy sauce, mustard, and ginger.
    6. Add onion mixture to lentils.
    7. Cut bacon into 1 inch pieces.
    8. Stir bacon into lentils.
    9. Pour honey over top.
    10. Cover tightly and put dutch oven in oven.
    11. Bake 50 minutes.
    12. Uncover and bake 10 minutes longer.
    13. Remove from oven and serve hot.

    Source

  • Chunky Potato Soup

    Ingredients

    • 6 strips raw bacon
    • 2 yellow onions chopped
    • 8 large yellow potatoes peeled and chopped
    • 6 cups chicken stock
    • 2 cups milk
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
    • 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
    • 2 green onions sliced

    Method

    1. Cook raw bacon in a frying pan until crisp, set aside.
    2. Cook onions in bacon fat until soft.
    3. Add potatoes to stock pot with chicken stock and bring to boil.
    4. Reduce heat to medium, cover, and let simmer 25 minutes.
    5. Using a potato masher, mash potatoes in stock until soup thickens but chunks of potato remain.
    6. Add crumbled bacon, cooked onions, milk, spice, cheese, and green onions to soup and simmer a few minutes longer.

    Source

    Unknown source in Janice’s writing.

  • Barbequed Spare Ribs

    Takes at least 8 hours, can start marinating the night before.

    Ingredients

    • 2 pounds pork spare ribs
    • 1/4 cup soy sauce
    • 2 tablespoons honey
    • 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
    • 2 tablespoons white vinegar
    • 2 tablespoons rice wine
    • 2 tablespoons chicken stock
    • 1 teaspoon garlic chopped fine
    • 1 teaspoon sugar

    Method

    1. Trim excess fat from ribs.
    2. Mix together all other ingredients in a small bowl.
    3. Pour marinade over the spare ribs.
    4. Marinate for 6 hours in the fridge, turning over every hour or so.
    5. Move one rack in oven to very top of oven, move other rack to the very bottom.
    6. Put a drip tray on the bottom rack.
    7. Preheat oven to 375°F.
    8. Insert hooks into one side of each rack of ribs.
    9. Hang the ribs from the top rack using the hooks.
    10. Roast undisturbed for 45 minutes.
    11. Raise oven temperature to 450°F.
    12. Roast for 15 minutes longer.
    13. Remove from oven, cut into portions, and serve hot.

    Source

    Holitzki family recipe.