Ox Cheek

Ingredients

• Large carrots (cut in quarters) 2.
• Turnips (cut in quarters) 2.
• Onions 3.
• Celery ^ head.
• Parsley, thyme, marjoram a good bunch.
• Peppercorns i teaspoonful.
• Salt 2 teaspoonfuls.

Method

1. 1

   Remove all small splintered bones, wash thoroughly, and soak in salt and water.

2. 2

   Boil in a large pot with cold water, then add the ingredients.

3. 3

   Simmer gently for 4-5 hours until the flesh leaves the bones.

4. 4

   Remove bones, cool the cheek, cut into slices, and stamp out rounds.

5. 5

   Ornament a buttered mould with hard-boiled egg, chopped parsley, and ham or tongue.

6. 6

   Fill with pieces of cheek, boil the liquor, add gelatine, season, and pour into the mould.

7. 7

   Bake in a moderate oven for an hour.

8. 8

   Fill the mould with more liquor, turn out when cold, and garnish with parsley.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home cookery (1898) by North Midland School of Cookery, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Large carrots (cut in quarters) 2. Turnips (cut in quarters) 2. Onions 3. Celery ^ head. Parsley, thyme, marjoram a good bunch. . Peppercorns i teaspoonful. Salt 2 teaspoonfuls. Let it simmer very gently till the flesh will leave the bones ; this will be at least four or five hours. Remove the bones and let the cheek become cold, then cut it into slices and stamp out some rounds. Ornament a buttered mould with hard-boiled egg, chopped parsley, and a little ham or tongue (if convenient), also with the rounds already stamped out. Fill in with pieces of the cheek. Take some of the liquor in which the cheek has been stewed, let it boil, add to it a few leaves of Marshall's gelatine, season it highly. Pour this into the mould and fill it up well. Cover the mould, set it in a tin of water, and bake it in a moderate oven for an hour or a little longer. Remove from the oven, fill up the mould with more of the liquor. Turn out when cold, and garnish with parsley. Ox cheek

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