617. Pig’s Head in imitation of Wild Boar’s Head

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Ingredients (1)
Instructions (3)
  1. Cut off the pig's head for this purpose.
  2. Prepare the pig's head to resemble a wild boar's head.
  3. The dish can last good for three weeks.
Original Text · last edited 12 days ago
617. Pig’s Head in imitation of Wild Boar’s Head.—This you will say is not only a difficult dish to do, but a very expensive one. You are right when you are obliged to buy the pig to possess the head; but in a small farm-house where they kill a pig perhaps once a year at Christmas, the head can be very easily cut off for this purpose. Being on a visit some years since at a farm-house, I had the opportunity of having one, and trying my skill upon it; it was much approved of, both for its ferocious appearance, and its flavor, and it lasted good for three weeks.
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