Sheep’s Trotters Brawn

Ingredients

• 6 sheep’s trotters
• a pinch of washing soda
• i blade of mace
• i dessertspoonful of salt
• about 25 peppercorns
• a dessertspoonful of coriander seeds
• 4 bay leaves
• half a tumbler of vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Clean and wash the trotters in warm water with washing soda, then in cold water.

2. 2

   Joint and boil in an enamelled saucepan with plenty of water until tender.

3. 3

   Remove bones and set to cool.

4. 4

   Skim off oil, then boil mace, salt, peppercorns, coriander seeds, and bay leaves in a muslin bag with the jelly.

5. 5

   Add vinegar to taste.

6. 6

   Pour into moulds garnished with chillies, lemon, parsley, and eggs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SHEEP’S TROTTERS BRAWN J unc June 4. — Meat. — Pork is now in season, and good mutton and beef are always to be had, and Australian meat is also much used.^ A friend, who lives in a charming country farmhouse, wrote the other day to ask if I could suggest any way of cooking sheep’s trotters, for she “never could thifik of any new way, and the worst of it was every sheep had four,” she “wished they were bipeds.” Perhaps she would have agreed with the person in Punch, who wished “ some new animal were invented ! ” Every housekeeper, however, knows the difficulty of making variety, so, sympathizing with her, I took some trouble to answer her letter, and am proud to say found four excellent Groote Poste recipes to send her. They were not all new to her, but they are so good I shall record them here. Sheep’s Trotters Brawn. — Take 6 sheep’s trotters, well cleaned and washed, first in warm water to which a pinch of washing soda has been added, and then again in cold water. Joint the trotters, cut up, and boil in an enamelled saucepan, with a good deal of water, till qiiite tender, so that the bones can be removed, and then after extracting the bones, set them to cool. Skim off all the oil to keep (this when clarified is equal to Lucca oil), and put the following ingredients — i blade of mace, i dessertspoonful of salt, about 25 peppercorns, a dessertspoonful of coriander seeds, 4 bay leaves — into a small muslin bag, and let them boil up with the jelly; add half a tumbler of vinegar

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