Wild Boar or its Replacement

Since it is unlikely that anyone will be able to obtain wild boar, here is a recipe for a nice shoulder of pork prepared in the same manner as a leg of wild boar. I enjoyed it at the table of a friend of mine while vacationing in Les Bois, three miles up the Chamonix valley. It was prepared by her Savoie-born cook. I hardly spoke with the cook, since she was one of those house “servants” who, in those days, slid silently in and out of bourgeois French dining rooms.