Name: To Dress a Calf's Head, One Half Boiled and the Other Baked
Ingredients: 1 calf's head; 1 egg

To Dress a Calf's Head, One Half Boiled and the Other Baked

Ingredients

1 calf's head
1 egg

Directions

Clean the calf's head thoroughly.
Parboil one half of the head.
Beat the yolk of the egg.
Rub the egg yolk over the head.

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 Dress a Calf's Head, One Half Boiled and the Other Baked