Fromage de Tête on Toast with Pickles

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    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      4 hr

Appears in
Meat Manifesto

By Andy Fenner

Published 2017

  • About

Fromage de tête (literally translated from French as “head cheese”) is not cheese at all, but instead refers to a brawn/terrine made from the meat picked off a pig’shead. I know, I know – it takes balls to call your butcher and order a pig’s head, but he or she would probably love you forever. It’s the Oscar-winning performance, the ultimate achievement, of home nose-to-tail cooking. A pig’s head is a treasure chest for meat-lovers, with some of the best-tasting meat found here. A single he

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