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Head Cheese Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 quart cooked lean pork
1 large onion- raw
2 cups quick oatmeal - cooked in 1 quart of meat broth
2 T allspice
½ T sage
salt
pepper
Directions:
Directions:
Boil one hog's head in water to cover until meat falls off bones. This takes a canner as a good cooking vessel. Remove to a large platter to cool. Remove fat parts and use lean only. Grind meat and onion. Add oatmeal and spices. Put in a cake pan. When cold, cut into chunks, wrap and freeze.

To serve, fry until hot. Serve on toast.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This was a family favorite. We would have this in the winter for breakfast before school. It was so much of a favorite that after we sold off the pigs, I remember Tami stopping at a butcher shop in St. Cloud when she was in college, to bring home a pigs head so we could make this!

Dad always made this "to taste" so there was no formal recipe. Edna's daughter, Avis, had this recipe which is very close. Her recipe called for lean pork roast. Dad always made ours from a pig's head when we butchered.

 

 

 

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