Name: To Collar Pig’s Head
Ingredients: 1 pig's head; water; coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')

To Collar Pig’s Head

Ingredients

1 pig's head
water
coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')

Directions

Scour the head and ears thoroughly.
Remove the hair, snout, eyes, and brain.
Soak the head in water overnight.
Drain the head and salt it very well.

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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To Collar Pig’s Head