Thread: A Yummy American Recipe for you... :-))

"Bigbazza" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>A Yummy American Recipe for you... :-))
>

Sounds like something popular in the 1890s-1910s.

Bigbazza wrote:
> A Yummy American Recipe for you... :-))
>
> Bigbazza Oz
>
>
> http://www.kitchencookingrecipes.com...head-soup.html
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> Calf's Head Soup Recipe
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> Created by cooking,
> Friday, 08 February 2008
>
> Calf's Head Soup Ingredients
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> Methods/steps
>
> Have the butcher remove the eyes, jawbone and teeth from the calf's head
> and crush the bones. Cover with water, in which place an onion stuck
> with six cloves, and add a few (3) allspice berries and the tongue.
> Boil until the meat drops from the bones. Blanch the brains and parboil
> in the stock. Cut the tongue and brains into small dice. Mash the
> yolks of two hard-boiled eggs smooth with two tablespoons of flour and
> one tablespoon of butter; cut the whites of the two eggs into small
> dice. Boil down the stock to one-half the original quantity. Just
> before serving, add the meat, tongue, brains, whites of eggs and yolks
> thickening; season highly, and add a wineglass of sherry
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>
>
But Barry, I am sure people ate, and still eat (although usually
less overtly) the whole beast in every other country too.

--
Jean B.

Bigbazza wrote:
> A Yummy American Recipe for you... :-))
>
> Bigbazza Oz
>
>
> http://www.kitchencookingrecipes.com...head-soup.html
>
> Calf's Head Soup Recipe
>
> Created by cooking,
> Friday, 08 February 2008
>
> Calf's Head Soup Ingredients
>
> Methods/steps
>



That sounds like a very ancient recipe, Barry.
I've never heard of it and I have been around
for a long time and have eaten all over the U.S.

It also sounds nasty.

gloria p