PORK CHEESE (an Excellent Breakfast Dish)
Origin: London, England
Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861
Ingredients
- 2 lb cold roast pork
- pepper and salt to taste
- 1 dessertspoonful minced parsley
- 4 leaves of sage
- a very small bunch of savoury herbs
- 2 blade pounded mace
- a little nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoonful minced lemon-peel
- good strong gravy
- sufficient to fill the mould
Instructions
- Cut, but do not chop, the pork into fine pieces, and allow 1/4 lb. of fat to each pound of lean.
- Season with pepper and salt;
- pound well the spices, and chop finely the parsley, sage, herbs, and lemon-peel, and mix the whole nicely together.
- Put it into a mould, fill up with good strong well-flavoured gravy, and bake rather more than one hour.
- When cold, turn it out of the mould.