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This is one reason why Old Stylers cook meals from scratch and avoid ready meals!

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  • oldtractor
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    gilly1964 wrote: »
    I would not even know where to start with those ingredients, but in this case it would not be because I had forgotten how to but I would like to think because I am too young (47) to know what the ingredients are ;)
    I'm 50, but know what they are!
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    I don`t use pigs head these days. I had enough of cooking pigs head in the old days. I could make brawn when I was 11. Mutton and barley yes, lovely in the winter
  • laineyc_2
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    I have never cooked with ingredients like that.
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  • Molly41
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    I most definitely know how to cook and bake. I was very lucky to receive very thorough Home Economics at school and even won the school prize for it. However, I would never use the ingredients mentioned by the OP. I will always remember watching my Nanny boil up a head of some description and retching. That has never left me!!
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  • claire21
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    Well I have never cooked them but when I was a small girl my mum would send me to the butchers with one of my old prams to pick up loads for our dogs.
    One day an elderly lady stopped me on my walk home for a little chat and peered in my pram - you should have seen the look on her face!
  • rachbc
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    I don't cook stuff like that cos I don't like it - mutton yes but I loath barley! I make pate but I prefer game and duck liver to pigs. I'm not scared of bits of dead creature, and certainly don't exist on a diet of fast food - there is plenty of happy middle ground between boiling pigs heads and maccy d's!
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  • oldtractor
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    sheeps head is where I draw the line. it smells awful when its cooking,my DH's gran used to make sheeps head broth and its the only thing he wont heat. its the smell.
  • quintwins
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    i have never even seen a pigs head that isn't live and i most definatly wouldn't eat it, however i'm only 24 saying that i can and do cook and also use cheaper cuts, and thights instead of breasts ect i also cook game and duck that my oh shoots but i do draw a line at animal heads
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  • angeltreats
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    I can't get mutton from my local butcher :( Shame, I love it in a curry.

    Trotters and pig/sheep/any other sort of heads would not go down well in my house as I have a fairly squeamish husband (and I don't fancy it much myself, to be honest) but we do quite happily cook and eat the rabbits that my boss's dog keeps catching, they are delicious and free :D
  • ragz_2
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    quintwins wrote: »
    i have never even seen a pigs head that isn't live and i most definatly wouldn't eat it, however i'm only 24 saying that i can and do cook and also use cheaper cuts, and thights instead of breasts ect i also cook game and duck that my oh shoots but i do draw a line at animal heads

    Ditto (though I'm 25), but I do have bunnies and pigeon in the freezer and I do cook the rabbit but I tend to get DH to cook the pigeon as I don't eat it.
    OP, I think most of us on Old Style cook pretty well whatever our age, so like a previous poster said, you're preaching to the converted ;)
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