To Bake a Calf’s Head

Name: To Bake a Calf’s Head
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: calf’s head; pepper; bread sifted; eggs; egg yelks; butter; mace powdered; nutmeg; salt; lemon; water; white wine; butter; fried bread; red beet root pickled; fried oysters

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Virginia Housewife

By Mary Randolph

Published 1824

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Method

Divide the calf’s head, wash it clean, and having the yelks of two eggs well beaten, wash the outside of the head all over with them, a