Pork chops in a net, grandmother's style

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 6 pork chops with bone
• 2 eggs
• 300 g porcini mushrooms
• 1 tsp thyme, dried
• salt and pepper
• 1 pig net(s)
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil for frying

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Cooking/baking time approx. 25 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 25 minutes

Variant of the crepinette, an optical joke

Remove the meat from the bones, cut into pieces, and mince. Add the eggs, diced porcini mushrooms, and thyme. Knead the mixture thoroughly and season with salt and pepper. Place a bone on a sufficiently large piece of pork gauze and press one-sixth of the minced meat mixture into a flat dumpling. Press the minced meat onto the bone and shape it into a natural cutlet. Wrap the pork gauze around the fake cutlet. Repeat with the remaining five bones. Brown the meat on both sides in hot oil, then finish cooking in an oven preheated to 160°C (320°F) for about a quarter of an hour. If you only want to fry it in a pan, there’s a risk that the pork gauze will cook so browned that it won’t adhere properly to the meat. We served it with French fries as a side dish.