Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 1998

  • About

Baeckoffe is Alsatian for baker’s oven. On Sunday morning, housewives would prepare this simple stew and drop it off at the baker’s before church. By lunchtime, it was done. This is truly unattended cooking.

Feel free to substitute lamb or beef for the pork. And feel free, too, to make this a day in advance; like many stews, it is better the second day.