Ginger Hale from Ruxton wrote in search of a recipe she has lost for pork chops cooked with prunes and molasses. She said that her mother got the recipe in the mid-1940s from what must have been one of the earliest TV cooking shows. Unfortunately, I did not receive any answers from readers about this particular recipe, but I was confident that I could find something close to what Hale was looking for if I searched the Internet.

These days pork, either stuffed or cooked with dried fruit, is a popular combination. A recipe for spiced pork chops with prunes I found on cooks.com seemed to fit the bill. I made only one minor modification and that was to substitute 1 tablespoon of molasses for the 1 tablespoon of sugar in the original recipe. The chops came out very moist and tasty, and the accompanying prune sauce was delicious on the chops and served over white rice.