Sheep-head Pie

Ingredients

• One sheep's-head
• one-half pound of bacon
• one teaspoonful of pepper
• one dessert spoonful of salt
• two hard boiled eggs

Method

1. 1

   Clean the sheep's head, boil in cold water, skim, and simmer until meat separates from bones.

2. 2

   Remove meat and tongue, layer in a pie dish with bacon and sliced eggs, season, and repeat layers.

3. 3

   Pour in liquor from boiling, cover with crust, and bake for half an hour.

4. 4

   Serve cold.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from My mother's cook book (1902) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SHEEP-HEAD PIE. 205 and salt, and let all simmer slowly together for twenty minutes. Beat in a bowl the yolks of eggs, add to them the chopped parsley and nutmeg, and taking the saucepan from the fire, let its contents cool a little, and add thereto the egg mixture from the bowl. Stir all well together, adding at the last moment the cream, and serve at once. Calf's Liver.— One and one-half pounds of calf's liver, one-quarter pound of bacon, one teaspoonful of mixed herbs, one teaspoonful of salt, one-half teapoonful of pepper, yolks of two eggs, one teacupful of cream. Place the liver in a saucepan over the fire, and cover- ing it with cold water, let it boil therein for three-quarters of an hour. * Take it from the water, allow it to become per- fectly cool, and then grate it fine upon a carrot grater. Put the grated liver into a bowl, and chopping the bacon very fine, mix it therewith. Add to this mixture the herbs, pepper and salt, beat well together the yolks of eggs and the cream, and mix these in also. Put all into a saucepan, ajid placing this over a very slow fire, stir the preparation until very hot, not at any time allowing it to boil. Serve upon a hot dish. Sheep-head Pie. — One sheep's-head, one-half pound of bacon, one teaspoonful of pepper, one dessert spoonful of salt, two hard boiled eggs

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