Jellied Brawn

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Complete Book of Home Preserving

By Mary Norwak

Published 1978

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Ingredients

  • ½ salted pig’s head, with ears and tongue
  • 2 pig’s trotters
  • 2 onions

Method

Trim the head and take off the ears and tongue. Trim and clean the trotters. Soak the meat in cold water for six hours. Put into fresh water. Do not peel the onions but cut them in half. Add to the pig’s head, tongue and ears in the water and bring to the boil. Add a muslin bag filled with herbs, lemon peel and spices. Simmer for 4 hours until the bones slip out easily. Take off the heat and le