BOILED CALF'S HEAD (without the Skin)

Ingredients

• Calf's head
• water
• a little salt
• 4 tablespoonful melted butter
• 1 tablespoonful minced parsley
• pepper and salt to taste
• 1 tablespoonful lemon-juice
• CALF'S HEAD.]
• HALF A CALF'S HEAD.]

Instructions

1. After the head has been thoroughly cleaned, and the brains removed, soak it in warm water to blanch it.
2. Lay the brains also into warm water to soak, and let them remain for about an hour.
3. Put the head into a stewpan, with sufficient cold water to cover it, and when it boils, add a little salt;
4. take off every particle of scum as it rises, and boil the head until perfectly tender.
5. Boil the brains, chop them, and mix with them melted butter, minced parsley, pepper, salt, and lemon-juice in the above proportion.
6. Take up the head, skin the tongue, and put it on a small dish with the brains round it.
7. Have ready some parsley and butter, smother the head with it, and the remainder send to table in a tureen.
8. Bacon, ham, pickled pork, or a pig's cheek, are indispensable with calf's head.
9. The brains are sometimes chopped with hard-boiled eggs, and mixed with a little Béchamel or white sauce.