Calf's Head

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Time
Cook: 180 min Total: 180 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (5)
  1. Scald the hair off; trim and pare it, and make it look as neat as possible.
  2. Take out the bones, and have ready palates boiled tender, hard-boiled yolks of eggs, oysters just scalded, and very good forcemeat: stuff all this into the head, and sew it close in a cloth.
  3. Boil it gently for full three hours.
  4. Make a strong good gravy for sauce.
  5. Garnish with fried bacon.
Original Text
Calf’s Head. Scald the hair off; trim and pare it, and make it look as neat as possible. Take out the bones, and have ready palates boiled tender, hard-boiled yolks of eggs, oysters just scalded, and very good forcemeat: stuff all this into the head, and sew it close in a cloth. Boil it gently for full three hours. Make a strong good gravy for sauce. Garnish with fried bacon.
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