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Calf's Head a LA Terrapin

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Calf's Head a LA Terrapin

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the calf's head until tender.

  2. Cut the meat into 1-inch square pieces.

  3. Prepare the Terrapin Sauce separately.

  4. Stir the calf's head pieces into the sauce.

  5. Slice the hard-boiled egg whites and mix them in with the meat.

  6. Place the mixture in a bowl over a kettle of boiling water (bain-marie) for 30 to 45 minutes to heat.

  7. Serve in a casserole or deep dish.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sauce + eggtop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,895 recipes

Sauce and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,895 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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