Name: Calf's Head Dinner
Ingredients: calf's head; calf's feet; calf's tongue; calf's brains; coarse sea salt; water

Calf's Head Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

Scald and scrape the calf's head and feet.
Remove the tongue and split the head in half.
Take out the brains, soak them overnight, and place in a muslin bag.
Boil the brains in water for 15 minutes.
Soak the head, feet, and harslet in cold salted water for several hours.
Boil the head, feet, and harslet in skimmed water for 2 to 3 hours until tender.

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.