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To Make Scrapple

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Make Scrapple

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the pig's head until the meat slips from the bones.

  2. Chop the meat finely.

  3. Chill the cooking liquid until very cold and remove all the fat.

  4. Bring the liquid to a boil, add the chopped meat, and season with salt and pepper.

  5. Once boiling, slowly add yellow cornmeal while stirring steadily.

  6. Cook for an hour, stirring for the first ten minutes, then let it simmer.

  7. Pour the mixture into a long, shallow pan to cool and set.

  8. When ready to use, slice and sauté in hot fat.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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