Mark Twain’s Orange-Pecan Pork Roast

Travel Fare
Hannibal, Missouri

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The Legends of Mark Twain still cling to the shoreline of the Mississippi River at his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. As a writer, Twain mined his memory, using many of Hannibal’s locations for his tales about Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. On brick-paved Hill Street, which leads to the river, stand the boyhood home of Twain, known then as Samuel Clemens, and the Becky Thatcher House, which he remembered as the home of his childhood sweetheart Laura Hawkins. Across the street is the tiny Clemens Law Office, where Twin’s father once presided as the town’s justice of the peace. The room, with its worn wooden floors and weathered furniture, was used in detailing Muff Potter’s trial in the classic book, Tom Sawyer.

Mark Twain’s Orange-Pecan Pork Roast

1/2 cup onion, chopped

1/8 teaspoon garlic, minced

2 tablespoons soybean oil

1/4 cup pecans, chopped

1/2 cup orange marmalade

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

2 pound boneless pork roast

• Saute onion and garlic in oil.
• Add remaining ingredients, except pork. Heat
• Pour over roast. Insert meat thermometer into center of roast
• Bake meat in 325 degree oven to internal temperature of 170 degrees (about 40-45 minutes per pound).
• Remove from oven and let stand 15 minutes before serving.
• Serves 4-6