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    Hog's head cheese

    This is just the recipe to use up those pesky hog's heads that are left lying around after a "boucherie' " is over and all the good parts are gone .

    My Mom would say " We use up everything but the squeal " when it came to hog killing and food preparation ...

    Cajun Hog's Head Cheese

    Ingredients:
    1 large hog's head or two medium sized ones . Provide your own or ask the local butcher .
    OK ...if you can't get a head then substitute 2 1/2 - 3 lbs. Boston butt(it won't be quite as good but will do)
    1 or 2 pigs feet (this is for the collagen
    10 cups water
    1 tablespoon salt
    3/4 lb. onions , chopped
    1 tablespoon dried parsley flakes
    1 tablespoons dried celery flakes
    1 bunch green onions , tops and bottoms , chopped fine
    1 teaspoon black pepper
    1 teaspoon red pepper
    2 bay leaves
    1 tablespoon Kitchen Bouquette

    Clean the head by removing the eyes, ears and brains . Saw into 4 pieces .

    Add all ingredients to your stock pot , bring to a slow boil ...and let everything cook down until very tender and meat begins to fall off the bones .
    Remove meat from water. when cooled a bit cut up / chop meat fine .
    Strain the water and return all the chopped meat to the liquid , bring to a boil , adjust seasonings to your taste , boil the liquid an additional 30 - 45 minutes to thicken if needed .
    Let cool and pour into loaf pan(s) . 1 large or two small Chill thoroughly , turn out on a serving dish and serve with crackers and /or with boudin .
    Note - warm the loaf pan in warm water to help unstick the head cheese when you turn it out . I like to mould it in pyrex loaf pans with snap on plastic covers .
    Very tasty stuff .

    A local market makes a version of this but with chicken meat ...
    they decided to market it as "Chicken Glace' " ... I guess calling it
    "Chicken Head Cheese" didn't sound so appealing ... I have this mental picture of a pot full of boiling chicken heads and feet going on in the back ...Parts is Parts and you gotta do something with em ! Chicken Glace' ....yeah that's the ticket !
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    Quote Originally Posted by gwpercle View Post
    (s) ... I guess calling it "Chicken Head Cheese" didn't sound so appealing ... I have this mental picture of a pot full of boiling chicken heads and feet going on in the back ...Parts is Parts and you gotta do something with em ! Chicken Glace' ....yeah that's the ticket !
    Gary
    The thought of a pot full of boiling quartered pig's head with eyeballs, ears, and brains doesn't sound very appealing either.

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    I was brought up on head cheese , souse and such. I dearly love real mince meat pie. I haven’t had hogs for 20yrs. A friend who lives local kept a few just for family and his mother made the head cheese and mince meat. She cold packed mince meat too and always kept me tuned up. My wife would make the pies but wouldn’t eat them. Sadly Ma passed and was cut off. Past fall I did a job down in WVa. and lady made me a pie and gave me 5lb loaf head cheese. The store bought stuff is a joke. People that wouldn’t eat the real McCoy because of what it’s made of will eat the store bought stuff. That way they know what they are getting, yea nose holes and *** holes with maybe an ear or two thrown in for texture.

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    I like it on crackers with a cold beer and a dash of hot sauce. I try to get some homade when i go to Louisiana to visit my kinfolks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by curdog View Post
    I like it on crackers with a cold beer and a dash of hot sauce. I try to get some homade when i go to Louisiana to visit my kinfolks.
    Now that is meal truly fit for a king !

    Like just about anything ... home made has store bought beat all to hell and back !
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    Dad made hog's head cheese every year. I remember him using the old butcher's saw to cut the head. He pressure cooked it in batches in a 12 qt. Bones were so soft you could mash them between thumb and forefinger. Our dogs loved them. Chop everything up fine with fresh garlic and onions, add the seasonings, pour in loaf pans and let set. Big slab of that and a big slab of onion on a couple of slices of bread, heaven!
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    i love it,the only store bought ive found eatable is zeigler's they make hot and mild,i sure would like to find some good homemade

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chad5005 View Post
    i love it,the only store bought ive found eatable is zeigler's they make hot and mild,i sure would like to find some good homemade
    Best Stop Food Market in Scott , Louisiana ... 615 LA 93 ...about 1 mile down the road from the Cock-Pit bar and cock fighting establishment . As good as homemade ...they make their own Cracklins , Andouille , Boudin and Smoked Boudin ...honestly the Head Cheese is better than what I can make...and a lot easier to get.
    Don't go into the Cock-Pit on Sat. night ...they fight roosters in the back cock fighting pit and it gets raided every now and again...something about gambling not in a Casino being illegal ...Go Figure !

    I just checked and they have a web site now... you can order stuff and they will ship it to you . To GA. they can do 2 day ! That's good in a way ...but then you don't have an excuse to stop in the Cock-Pit for cold beer and to watch a cock fight !
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    well they wife and i went on in to town saturday and got all the ingredients for the hog head cheese,we got started on it about 8 pm and got every thing done and poured into loaf pans by 2 am,we used the boston butt and 2 pigs feet,we used ground red pepper this time but on the next one we'll used ground red pepper and red pepper flakes to get the heat up to where we like it.it has a very good taste and wasnt bad to make.ill post a pic in a minute

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    the wife and i make our own sausage and pork boubin,next were trying seafood boudin with shrimp,crab and fish

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drm50 View Post
    I was brought up on head cheese , souse and such. I dearly love real mince meat pie. I haven’t had hogs for 20yrs. A friend who lives local kept a few just for family and his mother made the head cheese and mince meat. She cold packed mince meat too and always kept me tuned up. My wife would make the pies but wouldn’t eat them. Sadly Ma passed and was cut off. Past fall I did a job down in WVa. and lady made me a pie and gave me 5lb loaf head cheese. The store bought stuff is a joke. People that wouldn’t eat the real McCoy because of what it’s made of will eat the store bought stuff. That way they know what they are getting, yea nose holes and *** holes with maybe an ear or two thrown in for texture.
    Same for me! Every now and then My wife and I drive about 1 hour northeast of us to a small town that has a real German Butcher shop / Restaurant!... we get there for lunch and Have a nice German meal and then go home with a whole bunch of goodies from the butcher shop! Souse, Headcheese and Real Weisswurst and Blood Sausage!
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    There oughtta be a law against you guys posting stuff like this.
    Never heard of it before, Now I gotta make some and try it.

    Local butcher shop goes thru a lot of hogs.
    Bet they don't save any heads or feet so i should be able to get some free.
    That stuff just isn't done up here !!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gwpercle View Post
    My Mom would say " We use up everything but the squeal " when it came to hog killing and food preparation ...
    Mom should have saved that too, so she could make oinkment to put on minor scrapes and sunburns..
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    Quote Originally Posted by semtav View Post
    Bet they don't save any heads or feet so i should be able to get some free.
    Hog heads are the main thing used in true, old school, real Mexican tamales.
    Here, making one disappear is no problem.
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    We never raised hogs commercially,but we did raise them for our own use,and my Uncle (Dad's brother in-law") would always take the heads for his Mother, so I assume she made it. I have ate the store bought souse,and like it. I find it to taste a little like pickled pig's feet, which I haven't had in years. A world of warning for all you head cheese lovers, especially you Texans..Beware of any crazy hippie photographers trying to lure you to his home with the promise of some head cheese made by his brother. LOL

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    Some 55+ years ago, I remember my German Grandmother call it 'stoltz', and we ate it cold with a little catsup and fresh rye bread. I learned early on, not to disagree with Grandma, never worked out very good for me? Tom

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    couldnt hold me down and force it into my mouth. make my pig eating loins chops ham and bacon please. Sounds about as appetizing as saving the silver skin off of a deer and grinding into a mush with a bit of scrap meat Maybe if shtf and the world was ending id eat jellied meat before your brother but thats about it. I guess though, some animals even eat afterbirth. Looks kind of the same!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gwpercle View Post
    Now that is meal truly fit for a king !

    Like just about anything ... home made has store bought beat all to hell and back !
    Gary
    MOST of the time homemade is the best but there are exceptions.

    Growing up my mother made ketchup. It was awful. I can't describe how awful without getting perma-banned from this forum.

    Almost nightmare inducing kind of awful.

    Aaaaarrghaaaaaaa!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 15meter View Post
    MOST of the time homemade is the best but there are exceptions.

    Growing up my mother made ketchup. It was awful. I can't describe how awful without getting perma-banned from this forum.

    Almost nightmare inducing kind of awful.

    Aaaaarrghaaaaaaa!
    My Mom made home made mayonnaise ... She thought it was better but my brother and I would cry untill she bought a jar of Blue Plate for us . Blue Plate is still my favorite but the wife likes Hellmann's ... but I don't cry if she buys Hellmann's .
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