Calf's Head Boiled

Ingredients

• Your butcher will clean the head
• spice it highly with pepper
• spice it highly with salt
• spice it highly with allspice
• spice it highly with cloves
• spice it highly with mace
• one half pint of wine
• a lump of butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil the head until it falls to pieces.

2. 2

   Separate the meat from the bones and return to the cooking water.

3. 3

   Cook for four hours, spice, thicken with batter and butter, add wine, and garnish with lemon and hard-boiled eggs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home dissertations (1891) by Tilton, E. Stevens Mrs., page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CALF'S HEAD BOILED. Your butcher will clean the head; cut off the ears and dig out the eyes; boil head until it falls to pieces; separate the meat from the bones; lay the brains in a dish and return the remainder to water in which the head was boiled, and let it cook four hours; do not allow the water to get too low; spice it highly with pepper, salt, allspice, cloves, mace; when done, thicken with a little batter and lump of butter; remove from the fire, and when tne steam evaporates, add one half pint of wine

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.