Boiled Head Hash

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (37)
For the head
For the hash
For frying the brains
For garnishing
Instructions (31)
  1. Boil the head almost enough.
  2. Take the best half with a sharp knife, and take it nicely from the bones, with the two eyes.
  3. Lay it in a little deep dish before a good fire, taking care no ashes fall into it.
  4. Hack it with a knife cross and cross.
  5. Grate some nutmeg all over, add a very little pepper and salt, a few sweet herbs, some crumbs of bread, and a little lemon-peel chopped very fine.
  6. Baste it with a little butter, then baste it again.
  7. Pour over it the yolks of two eggs.
  8. Keep the dish turning so it browns evenly.
  9. Cut the other half of the head and the tongue into little thin bits.
  10. Set on a pint of drawn gravy in a saucepan, with a little bundle of sweet herbs, an onion, a little pepper and salt, a glass of red wine, and two shallots.
  11. Boil all these together for a few minutes.
  12. Strain it through a sieve and put it into a clean stew-pan with the hash.
  13. Float the meat before you put it in.
  14. Add a few mushrooms, a spoonful of pickle, two spoonfuls of catchup, and a few truffles and morels.
  15. Stir all these together for a few minutes.
  16. Beat up half the brains and stir into the stew-pan.
  17. Add a little piece of butter rolled in flour.
  18. Take the other half of the brains and beat them up with a little lemon-peel cut fine, a little nutmeg grated, a little beaten mace, a little thyme chopped small, a little parsley, and the yolk of an egg.
  19. Have some good dripping boiling in a stew-pan.
  20. Fry the brains in little cakes about as big as a crown piece.
  21. Fry about twenty oysters dipped in the yolk of an egg.
  22. Toast some slices of bacon.
  23. Fry a few force meat balls.
  24. Have ready a hot dish (if pewter, over clear coals; if china, over a pan of hot water).
  25. Pour in your hash.
  26. Lay in your toasted head.
  27. Throw the force meat balls over the hash.
  28. Garnish the dish with fried oysters, the fried brains, and lemon.
  29. Throw the rest (presumably garnishes) over the hash.
  30. Lay the bacon around the dish.
  31. Send it to table.
Original Text
Boil the head almoſt enough; then take the beſt half with a ſharp knife take it nicely from the bones, with the two eyes. Lay it in a little deep diſh before a good fire, and take great care no aſhes fall into it, and then hack it with a knife croſs and croſs; grate ſome nutmeg all over, a very little pepper and ſalt, a few ſweet herbs, ſome crumbs of bread, and a little lemon-peel chopped very fine, baſte it with a little butter, then baſte it again, and pour over it the yolks of two eggs; keep the diſh turning, that it may be all brown alike : cut the other half and tongue into little thin bits, and ſet on a pint of drawn gravy in a ſauce-pan, a little bundle of ſweet herbs, an onion, a little pepper and ſalt, a glaſs of red wine, and two ſhalots; boil all theſe together a few minutes, then ſtrain it through a ſieve, and put it into a clean ſtew-pan with the haſh. Float the meat before you put it in, and put in a few muſhrooms, a ſpoonful of the pickle, two ſpoonfuls of catchup, and a few truffles and morels; ſtir all theſe together for a few minutes, then beat up half the brains, and ſtir into the ſtew-pan, and a little piece of butter rolled in flour. Take the other half of the brains and beat them up with a little lemon-peel cut fine, a little nutmeg grated, a little beaten mace, a little thyme hired ſmall, a little parſley, the yolk of an egg, and have ſome good dropping boiling in a ſtew-pan; then fry the brains in little cakes about as big as a crown piece. Fry about twenty oyſters dipped in the yolk of an egg, toaſt ſome ſlices of bacon, fry a few force meat balls, and have ready a hot diſh; if pewter, over a clear clear coals; if china, over a pan of hot water. Pour in your haſh, then lay in your toaſted head, throw the force meat-balls over the haſh, and garniſh the diſh with fried oyſters, the fried brains, and lemon; throw the reſt over the haſh, lay the bacon round the diſh, and ſend it to table.
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