To Collar a Calf's Head

Ingredients

• 1 calf's head
• fresh parsley
• mace
• nutmeg
• pepper
• salt
• ham
• cloth
• tape
• vinegar and water

Instructions

1. After cleaning it nicely, saw the bone down the middle of the skull, but do not separate the head.
2. Take out the brains and tongue.
3. Boil it tender enough to remove the bones, which must be taken entirely out, and lay it on a board.
4. Have a good quantity of chopped parsley seasoned with mace, nutmeg, pepper and salt;
5. spread a layer of this, then one of thick slices of ham, another of parsley, and one of ham.
6. Roll it up tight, sew a cloth over it, and bind that round with tape.
7. Boil it half an hour, and when cold press it.
8. It must be kept covered with vinegar and water, and is very delicious eaten with sallad or oil and vinegar.