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Boar's Head

From The spirit of cookery, 1895

A traditional dish, often made from domestic bacon hog.

Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The spirit of cookery (1895) by Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum, page 297. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boar's Head is a traditional dish, and as in common life real wild boar’s head is of rare occurrence, the domestic bacon hog must yield the materials which are to he trans- formed into the simile of his ancestors of courageous memory. It is to be boned, stuffed, braised, covered with aspic jelly

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