CALF's Head Hash

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (15)

calf's head ↝ Pork, fresh, carcass, separable lean and fat, raw [Pork Products]
two quarts of gravy ↝ Gravy, NFS [Dips, gravies, other sauces]
one anchovy
a little beaten mace ↝ Spices, mace, ground [Spices and Herbs]
Chyan to your taste
two tea-spoonfuls of lemon pickle ↝ Pickles, dill [Olives, pickles, pickled vegetables]
two meat spoonfuls of walnut catchup ↝ Nuts, walnuts, English, halves, raw [Nut and Seed Products]
half an ounce of truffles and morels
half an ounce of truffles and morels ↝ Mushrooms, morel, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
a slice or two of lemon ↝ Lemon, raw [Citrus fruits]
a bundle of sweet herbs
a glass of white wine ↝ Wine, white [Wine]
a quarter of a pound of butter with flour ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
a quarter of a pound of butter with flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
your brains ↝ Brains [Liver and organ meats]

Instructions (5)

Clean your calf's head exceedingly well, and boil it a quarter of an hour.
When it is cold cut the meat into thin broad slices, and put it into a tossing pan, with two quarts of gravy.
When it has stewed three quarters of an hour, add to it one anchovy, a little beaten mace, and Chyan to your taste, two tea-spoonfuls of lemon pickle, two meat spoonfuls of walnut catchup, half an ounce of truffles and morels, a slice or two of lemon, a bundle of sweet herbs, and a glass of white wine.
Mix a quarter of a pound of butter with flour, and put it in a few minutes before the head is enough.
Take your brains and put them into hot water, it will make them sooner.

Original Text

To make a CALF's Head Hash.

CLEAN your calf's head exceedingly well, and boil it a quarter of an hour; when it is cold cut the meat into thin broad slices, and put it into a tossing pan, with two quarts of gravy: and when it has stewed three quarters of an hour, add to it one anchovy, a little beaten mace, and Chyan to your taste, two tea-spoonfuls of lemon pickle, two meat spoonfuls of walnut catchup, half an ounce of truffles and morels, a slice or two of lemon, a bundle of sweet herbs, and a glass of white wine, mix a quarter of a pound of butter with flour, and put it in a few minutes before the head is enough, take your brains and put them into hot water, it will make them sooner,

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