Shote's Head
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 shote's head
- heart and liver
- feet
- tongue
- brains
- water
- onion
- parsley
- thyme
- catsup
- butter
- brown flour
- green pickle
Instructions
- Take out the brains and boil the head till quite tender.
- Cut the heart and liver from the harslet, and boil the feet with the head.
- Cut all the meat from the head in small pieces, mince the tongue, and chop the brains small.
- Take some of the water the head was boiled in, and season it with onion, parsley and thyme, all chopped fine; add any kind of catsup.
- Thicken it with butter and brown flour.
- Stew the whole in it fifteen minutes and put it in the dish.
- Have the heart roasted to put in the middle, lay the broiled liver around, and garnish it with green pickle.