Pork Roast With Sausage-Apple Stuffing - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup peeled and chopped tart apple
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1 lb ground pork
1/2 lb well-seasoned sausage meat
1/2 cup finely chopped fresh parsley
1/2 teaspoon ground sage
1 teaspoon salt
fresh ground black pepper
1 pork crown roast, about 8 to 9 lbs

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt butter and add onions, celery and apples.
Cook until soft.
Add crumbs, then add ground pork, sausage, and seasonings; mix thoroughly.
Salt and pepper crown roast generously.
Rub with a little sage.
Fill center of crown roast with stuffing, mounding center slightly.
Cover with foil and wrap bone ends with additional foil.
Roast in hot oven for 3 hours or until meat thermometer reads 175 degrees.
About 30 minutes before roast is done, remove foil from stuffing.
Transfer roast to a large heated platter and remove foil.
Add frills to each little 'leg' if desired, and rest meat about 10 minutes before carving.
Decorate roast on platter with a round of small potatoes, large mushrooms, or cooked red cabbage.