Head Cheese, or Brawn
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the bony parts of the pig until the meat separates from the bone.
Chop the meat finely and season it as you would for sausage.
Add the chopped meat to the cooking liquid and tie it in a bag.
Place heavy weights on the bag to press it.
Once set, cut into thin slices and serve.
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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