To Grill a Calf's Head

Ingredients

• 1 calf's head
• water from boiling the head
• salt
• cayenne pepper
• 1 nutmeg
• 1 spoonful lemon pickle
• 1 calf's jowl or chop
• bread crumbs
• parsley
• pepper
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 spoonful butter
• 2 flour
• brain cakes
• sweetbreads

Instructions

1. Clean and divide it as for the turtle.
2. Take out the brains and tongue, boil it tender, take the eyes out whole, and cut the flesh from the skull in small pieces.
3. Take some of the water it was boiled in for gravy; put to it salt, cayenne pepper, a grated nutmeg, and a spoonful of lemon pickle.
4. Stew it till it is well flavoured.
5. Take the jowl or chop, take out the bones, and cover it with bread crumbs, chopped parsley, pepper and salt; set it in an oven to brown.
6. Thicken the gravy with the yelks of two eggs and a spoonful of butter rubbed into two of flour.
7. Stew the head in it a few minutes, put it in the dish, and lay the grilled chop on it.
8. Garnish it with brain cakes and broiled sweetbreads.