Name: To Drefs a Calfs Heady One Half Boiled, and the Other Baked
Ingredients: 1 calf's head; 1 egg yolk

To Drefs a Calfs Heady One Half Boiled, and the Other Baked

Ingredients

1 calf's head
1 egg yolk

Directions

Clean the calf's head thoroughly.
Parboil one half of the head.
Beat the egg yolk and rub it 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 Drefs a Calfs Heady One Half Boiled, and the Other Baked