Now this is something you don't see dished up on the 25th December nowadays!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ1N4Flm7Ko
and according to this youtube from a few years ago - in the US too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqbGmtNIUo
This dish was always served with mustard and is actually what we know now as brawn, something that I made a few times when we kept pigs. Although we always had the head cut in half before getting it back from the butcher as there is a surprising amount of meat on a pigs head, and I would put it to set in a bowl rather than putting it back in the cleaned pigs head skin!
Apologies as I'm sure someone has already mentioned this in their Blogmas posts and I copied some of it from one of my own posts from few years ago! Difficult to be original in December in Blogland!
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I watched/ half watched the programmes I'd planned yesterday and the final part of 'The War Between Land and Sea' had a very clever ending.
Wartime Christmas puddings were made and today there isn't much to do, I ought to get out for a bit of a walk as it looks like being a mostly sunny day.
I had no idea it was actually brawn inside the cleaned pigs head... that makes more sense.
ReplyDeleteBit of a shock to see that on the table if you didn't know it was coming!
DeleteI will watch The war between land and the sea tomorrow, I'm looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the whole series just right for before Christmas
DeleteMy OH was at Queen's College Oxford, and can sing the carol. Never fancied eating it though
ReplyDeleteWe used to eat brawn a lot when I was small - from the butcher- it was called Pork Cheese in Suffolk
DeleteI remember brawn and really hating it. It had a see through jelly all over with slices of boiled egg and tomatoes glistening at you. The days when you had to eat everything on your plate ;(
ReplyDeleteNo eggs or tomatoes in proper pork brawn - just tasty meat
DeleteNot sure I'd want to see that at the table lol though it is good that everything gets eaten. Hope you managed to get out for a walk in the sunshine
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to search the proper butchers around to find a pork brawn after Christmas
DeleteWhen I was a student, I worked in the canteen of a factory. It was a very hierarchical set up with different dining spaces for different employees. The Board met upstairs in the Boardroom and the centrepiece of their Christmas lunch was a suckling pig complete with apple in its mouth. I had to help carry it upstairs with the chef who received a huge round of applause as it was set down on the table! I much preferred being in the workers canteen where the apprentices used to try their luck about how many chips they could get with their lunch tickets! Catriona
ReplyDeleteBoar’s head on a platter wouldn’t tempt me at all. Honey baked ham… yes, please! Cali
ReplyDeleteI couldn't eat that.
ReplyDeleteI used to get brawn as a kid in Yorkshire. I didn't know that was the boar's head contents though -- I've wondered how they carved it! They don't.
ReplyDeleteAs a result of brawn I don't like certain reddish marble mantel pieces because the stone looks a lot like brawn! Around here there are historic homes which feature them, ew!
I couldn't stay at a table with a pig's head as it's centrepiece. The first time I saw a 'Suckling Pig' on a dish after us breeding pigs I burst into tears. Even if Alan queues for a hog roast bun at any country event I have to stay far away from the wagon selling them. I honestly thought back in the day, that being involved in the breeding would toughen me up, it had the exact opposite effect.
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