Making Head Cheese and Scrapple
Head cheese is not a cheese made from milk, but a pressed meat dish. It’s usually made from the heads of pigs and cows, although the brain, eyes, and ears are usually removed. Scrapple is also usually made from the head, but thickened with corn meal or buckwheat flour. INFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS PORK HEAD CHEESE This is made of the head, ears, and tongue of a pig. Boil them after cleaning them, in salted water until tender. Strip…