How do you cook a pig's head?

Seakay

wigginsmum wrote:

Sweetbreads are pancreas, aren't they? I cooked them once they were rather nice.

Jules

There are two kinds of sweetbreads: stomach sweetbreads (also known as heart or belly sweetbreads), which are an animal's pancreas, and neck (AKA throat or gullet) sweetbreads, an animal's thymus gland.


NB Nothing to do with testicles at all!

Jay-Jay_4

Seakay wrote:

There are two kinds of sweetbreads: stomach sweetbreads (also known as heart or belly sweetbreads), which are an animal's pancreas, and neck (AKA throat or gullet) sweetbreads, an animal's thymus gland.


NB Nothing to do with testicles at all!

:T Thanks you for clearing that up


I still prefer a nice chop....... you know where you are with a chop!

black-saturn

Yuk!!!! :eek:

Lillibet_2

Erm.......this thread has rasied a few questions. I hope you don't mind, but......

1) Why would Quackers be looking at Aliasojo's childrens feet?

2) If Quackers is getting the eyes, please can my springer spaniel have the ears?

3) Is it my imagination or did Pal ask a sensible querstion & if so, what on earth came over him?

4) If Jay-Jay is a witchety woman, how can she have testicals?

5) Didn't Hanniabl Lectuer (Sp?) like sweetmeats?

6) What was the alternative title to Sarahsavers Duck thread?

7) Is Jay-Jays avator supposed to be the dancing baby from Ally McBeal or have I missed something in pop-culture? (I know this is not exclusive to this thread but I've been curious for eons & now seems like the ideal time to ask).

I would be very grateful for any answers as I know I'm going to be wondering about this at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Thank you.

Jay-Jay_4

Lillibet wrote:

Erm.......this thread has rasied a few questions. I hope you don't mind, but......

1) Why would Quackers be looking at Aliasojo's childrens feet?

She works at Clarks shoe shop

2) If Quackers is getting the eyes, please can my springer spaniel have the ears?

only if I get it's earholes!

3) Is it my imagination or did Pal ask a sensible querstion & if so, what on earth came over him?

Pal seems to have a thing about meat :think: Start another meaty thread and I bet he chops er.. I mean chips in ....mmmmmm chop and chips :drool:

4) If Jay-Jay is a witchety woman, how can she have testicals?

I'm a laydee... I do not have testiclay!

5) Didn't Hanniabl Lectuer (Sp?) like sweetmeats?

Didn't he eat his friends brain? :think:

6) What was the alternative title to Sarahsavers Duck thread?

Duck hits :rotfl:

7) Is Jay-Jays avator supposed to be the dancing baby from Ally McBeal or have I missed something in pop-culture? (I know this is not exclusive to this thread but I've been curious for eons & now seems like the ideal time to ask).

It's a kung fu baby chosen because I had a youngish baby and not much imagination when I joined . Now I should change it to a dancing bottle of wine... which would represent me more precisely

I would be very grateful for any answers as I know I'm going to be wondering about this at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Thank you.

Thank YOU

Sarahsaver

Jay-Jay wrote:

Did you ever get a pig's head Sarahsaver?

still clearing the backlog of meat in the freezer after xmas, and I need to get a pan big enough, but I will report back when i do it;)

Iguana

Sarahsaver wrote:

Thanks for the sensible suggestions so far.
Those of you who are squeamish, if you eat sausages you eat pigs' heads anyway.
I just wanted a recipe! I know it seems that silly season has arrived on old style. Like what SHOULD i have called the duck thread? but if i posted anything daft it would get wiped out or moved as quick as a flash :rolleyes:

My grandmother used to cook pigs head for my grandfather and she used to cook brawn as well.

I found this in an old (1935) cookbook, the first edition was 1927.

Brawn

Ingredients:

Half a pigs head
1lb pork
Bunch of herbs
Blade of mace
1 Teaspoon peppercorns

Brine

Remove the brains, eyes and bristles from the head and wash well in salt water . To make a brine boil together 4 pints of soft water, 1 and a half llbs of bay salt, 1/4lb brown sugar, small 1/2oz saltpetre.

When the brine is quite cold put in the head and pork and leave for a week. Wash, place in cold water and leave for a week. Wash, place in cold water with the herbs etc and bring to the boil. Simmer gently for 21/2 - 3 hours. hours Cut the meat into small pieces and then continue stewing the bones until the stock has reduced itself to half the quantity. Put the meat into moulds, pour over the stock and leave to set.

I have to say I have tried it, albeit and didn't like it!

Trow

Although apparantly in Italy the same word is used for sweetbreads and testicles, so that might be where the common misconception started - although its more likely to be that people are getting confused between sweetmeat and sweetbreads...

Seakay wrote:

There are two kinds of sweetbreads: stomach sweetbreads (also known as heart or belly sweetbreads), which are an animal's pancreas, and neck (AKA throat or gullet) sweetbreads, an animal's thymus gland.


NB Nothing to do with testicles at all!

Sarahsaver

Easy in France - 'testicules'
what - have people got a problem with putting these in their mouth LOL!
I will feel a bit weird when I shave the pig's bristles and clear out its ear wax. :rolleyes:

oldtractor

I'm making brawn made from pigs trotters and shun beef at the moment. pigs head brawn is next on my to-make list,also pork and ham pie with hot water pastry. yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.