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To bake a Calf’s or Sheep s Head.
in little thin bits, and set on a pint of drawn gravy in a
saucepan, a little handle of sweet herbs, an onion, pepper
and salt, a glass of white wine, and two shalots; boil all
these together a few minutes, strain it through a sieve,
and put it in a clean stewpan with the hash. Flour the
meat before you put it in, and add a few mushrooms, a
'spoonful of the pickle, two spoonfuls of catchup, and a
few truffles and morels ; stir all together for a few mi-
nutes, then beat up half the brains, and stir in the stew-
pan, and a little bit of butter rolled in flour. Take the
other half of the brains, and beat them up with a little
lemon-peel cut fine, a little nutmeg grated, beaten mace,
thyme shred small, parsley, the yolk of an egg, and have
some good dripping boiling in a stewpan : then fry the
brains in little cakes, about as big as a crown-piece.
Fry twenty oysters, dipped in the yolk of an egg, toast
some slices of bacon, fry a few force-meat balls, and have
ready a hot dish; if pewter, over a few coals; if china,
over a pan of hot water. Pour in your hash, they lay in
your toasted head, throw the force-meat balls over the
hash, and garnish the dish with fried oysters, the fried
brains, and lemon ; throw the rest over the hash, lay the
bacon round the dish, and send it to table.
To bake a Calf’s or Sheep’s Head. Take the head, pick
it, and wash it clean; take an earthen dish large enough
to lay the head in, rub a little piece of butter over the
dish, then lay some long iron skewers across the top
of the dish, and put the head on them ; skewer up the
meat in the middle that it do not lie on the dish, then
grate nutmeg all over it, a few sweet herbs shred small,
crumbs of bread, a little lemon-peel cut fine, and then
flour it all over: stick pieces of butter in the eyes, and
all over the head, and flour it again. Let it be well
baked, and of a fine brown ; ’you may throw pepper and
salt over it, and pnt in the dish a piece of beef cut small,
a bundle of sweet herbs, an onion, some whole pepper, a
blade of mace, two cloves, a pint of water, and boil the
brain= with sage. When the lipad is enough, lay it in a
