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Recipes on how to boil ones head...............

please............

ouchhhh wouldnt tht hurt lol

Awkwardly

Bravely ?

I think you were meant to oil the bread, duh can't you read? :-)

Pat

Cautiously ?

I don't know , but I just have to say you made me laugh out loud and feeling as I do today that is some achievement :)

however taking the subject seriously a moment Google comes up with this which may help? ( being a veggie I can't comment on its efficiency, or should that be efficacy? or both?)

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This section is from the book "Lessons In Cookery", by Thomas K. Chambers. Also available from Amazon: Lessons In Cookery.

Lesson Ninth. Boiled Pig's Head (Salted), With Onion-Sauce
Ingredients. - Half a pig's head. Forty pepper-corns. Two blades of mace. Four cloves. Twelve allspice. A bunch of herbs. Two large onions.

Time required (after salting) for boiling pig's head, about two hours; for making into brawn, two hours.

To Boil Pig's Head:

1. "Wash a pig's head thoroughly in plenty of tepid water.

2. Take out the brains and throw them away.

3. Cut out the little veins, and all the splinters of bone.

4. Wash the head in all parts with plenty of salt, thoroughly cleansing it from blood.

5. Lay the head in pickle (see "Pickle for Meat") for three days.

6. When the head is salted, put it into a saucepan, with cold water enough to cover it.

7. Put the saucepan on the fire to boil.

8. When it boils, draw the saucepan to the side of the fire, and let it simmer gently for from one hour and a half to two hours, according to the size and age of the pig.

N. B. - Boiled pig's head is eaten with boiled rabbit, or with veal, or with onion-sauce.

N. B. - If preferred, the pig's head can be made into brawn (see below).

Dramatically.....lol

I can read..........when assisted............lol

well Mel might have a recipe as it is something she recommends a lot............

I have a new pressure cooker, I may try that for starters.....................or do I mean main course??

I assume you have tried and tested that recipe already Rose........lol

Economically - and boiling it for 2 hours (unless you have an Aga and it's winter) isn't economical!!!

lol no Whirley, but I do believe my nan might have when she was in service at the turn of the century...she copied down all the cook's recipes , great to read even though I wouldn't want to eat lol.