# Good things to do with ground pork?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 19, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-things-to-do-with-ground-pork/275579 "2004-11-19T00:39:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-things-to-do-with-ground-pork/275579/21 "2004-11-19T21:19:04Z")

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> [@Podkayne](#):
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> And what’s that amazingly yummy sweet soy sauce stuff they serve with Chinese dumplings, anyway?

Hoisin sauce. Great googly moogly, do I love that stuff!

Anyway … ground pork makes perfectly fine meatballs. Either the Italian or Swedish variety, your choice. Seems you want to do something Asian with it, but I am putting this out there as an option.

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**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-things-to-do-with-ground-pork/275579/22 "2004-11-19T22:21:56Z")

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tortiere!

(tasty, tasty meat pie)

A fairly basic recipie is  
-pastry for 2 crust pie  
-ground beef  
-ground pork  
-tsp or so ground nutmeg  
-tsp or so ground cinnamon  
-chopped onion  
cook onion, add meats and cook through. Add 1/2 cup of water or so, and spices. Cook for an hour, then cool and make pie.  
bake pie till warm and pastry is cooked through.

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