Boiled Calf Head

Ingredients

• Calfs head
• water
• a little salt
• four tablespoonfuls of melted butter
• one tablespoonful of minced parsley
• one tablespoonful of lemon-juice
• pepper and salt to taste

Method

1. 1

   After the head has been thoroughly cleaned and the brains removed, soak it in warm water to blanch it.

2. 2

   Put the head into a stewpan with sufficient cold water to cover it, and when it boils, add a little salt.

3. 3

   Boil until perfectly tender.

4. 4

   Boil the brains, chop them, and mix with melted butter, minced parsley, pepper, salt, and lemon juice.

5. 5

   Serve the head with the brains around it, smothered with parsley and butter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILED CALF HEAD (without the skin). Calfs head, water, a little salt, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one tablespoonfnl of minced parsley, pepper and salt to taste, one tablespoonful of lemon -juic

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