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The Breakfast Book

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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The Breakfast Book

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Tie the pork head tightly in a cloth.

  2. Simmer it for six hours in a broth made with bones and savory herbs.

  3. Let it cool in the broth.

  4. Remove the cloth and serve the head on a white napkin in the dish.

  5. Garnish with branches of holly, bay, and other herbs.

  6. Try to keep the head in its original form.

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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