Pork Belly and Head Terrine

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (8)
Instructions (15)
  1. Take a piece of the belly part, and the head of a young porker.
  2. Rub it with salt-petre, and let it lie three days.
  3. Wash it clean.
  4. Split the head and boil it.
  5. Take out the bones from the head, and cut it in pieces.
  6. Take four ox feet boiled tender and cut in thin pieces.
  7. Lay the ox feet and the head cut small in your belly piece.
  8. Roll it up tight with sheet tin, that a trencher will go in at each end.
  9. Boil it four or five hours.
  10. When it comes out, set it upon one end, and press the trencher down with a large lead weight.
  11. Let it stand all night.
  12. In the morning take it out of your tin.
  13. Bind it with a white fillet.
  14. Put it into cold salt and water, and it will be fit for use.
N. B.
  1. Make fresh salt and water every four days, and it will keep a long time.
Original Text
TAKE a piece of the belly part, and the head of a young porker, rub it with salt-petre, and let it lie three days, then wash it clean, split the head and boil it, then take out the bones, and cut it in pieces, then take four ox feet boiled tender and cut in thin pieces, lay them in your belly piece with the head cut small, then roll it up tight with sheet tin, that a trencher will go in at each end, boil it four or five hours; when it comes out, set it upon one end, and press the trencher down with a large lead weight, let it stand all night, and in the morning take it out of your tin, and bind it with a white fillet, put it into cold salt and water, and it will be fit for use. N. B.—You must make fresh salt and water every four days, and it will keep a long time.
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