I'm eating my own head-cheese.
 

See attached pics.

I know it as Brawn, but old-fashioned USA cookbooks call it head-cheese, (because it was made of a pigs head, usually.)

I used Ox-tongue and Corned Beef Silverside, both boiled, then chopped fine, then added Veggies.

Made up a nice stiff Aspic (using beef stock and French gelatine sheets with spices: Cayenne, Mace, Cloves, Peppercorns, Juniper Berries.)

Mixed Meat/Veggies and Aspic together, Set in a loaf, and sliced using my roundy-roundy Deli Slicer.

Heaven. I LOVE Brawn. :cheers: Love it.

It's like fruitcake for the damned.

OK, I have no idea if it's good - it's just the first thing that popped into my head.

Does it taste as funny as I imagine?

Spicy-meaty. Have you ever had a cold English Pork Pie (with the jelly inside) - it's sort of like that.

I could call it Molded Meat Jello Salad ;)

But has it got Vegemite in it?

Head Cheese was a food item my friends and I used to joke about. There was a prepackaged version of it available from Oscar-Mayer, and we used to dare one another to touch it (not directly, just through the package). We might have been less horrified if it had been called Brawn. I don't see this product in the sandwich meat case anymore.

Of course, the big cultural touchpoint for head cheese was the hitchhiker in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, who delivers a monologue on the quality of his family's homemade head cheese, just before he starts cutting his hand.

If it weren't for the gelatinous quality of it, I might brave it. Maybe next time I'm in Sydney.

Ive had the americanized version. it can make one hella tasty sammich

now Im craving some really good head...cheese that is. :blush:

(cant believe I actually posted that)

Nope ! Maybe next batch ;)

"My Head-Cheese Has A First Name,
It's O S C A R,
My Head-Cheese Has A Second Name,
It's M A Y E R"

:D

But it's the wobbly, gelatinous goodness that makes it special ! :evil:

Yes. Meh.

I once bought a Pork Pie, bit into it, thought it tasted funny, and on inspection saw that the jelly was covered in blue-green mould.

THAT was Meh. :eek:

Scary!

Though I like your avatar. I'm intrigued by the shapes within the head cheese.

I'll have to try it someday, but I am leery.

It looks like fancy soap you would buy at Basin.

Yeah!! That's what it looked like - thanks for reminding me.

Hopefully it doesn't taste like soap.

EeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeewwwWWWWWWWWW

Lash, you shouldn't eat something that could substitute for stained glass!

Does that mean I shouldn't eat Bishops Cake either ?

This from the girl who eats Chopped Liver and Gefilte Fish ! :rolleyes:

:p

Yucky! But props for the homemade creativity!

Very pretty, Lashbear, but the Bishop's Cake recipe looks particularly yummy.

It makes for a nice avatar. I think I'd have to be plied with alcohol before tasting.

You left out a critical ingredient of the recipe: the level to which you pre-charge the defibrillator.

LOL, that actually is Fruitcake for the Damned!

I wasn't even sure I should open a thread with a title like that.

Kinda wish I hadn't.

I'm singing the Head Shampoo song.

^^ Yeah at first I thought it was something about smegma, but then I thought, nah, that would be really revolting. (!!!!)

visible chernabog mojo, ewwwww

Visible Lily Tomlin Avatar Mojo for Snowflake.

And mystery meat mojo to you too my Aussie-bear friend!

Interesting that one can slice said meat, then prop it in a window ledge to take it's photograph. Great work, Lash!!

I'll try anything once. Twice if I like it. But when I saw head cheese in the store that had pig snout slices, and I could make out the nostrils quite plainly, I turned the other way. Then over the loud speaker was a page for a mop.....

Enough said.

No. Not pig-snout slices with nostril holes. That's reserved for the Halloween Buffet table. :eek:

(and I had the slice propped up in the window sitting on a clear lid of a storage container. God knows when I last washed the windows........)

uh...and where is it you work again? :evil:

ugh bleaugh!

Meat and gelatin just do not mesh for me- even Vienna Sausage is not packed in goo any longer.

:) (Lash- when I come out there eventually- is there a McDonalds nearby? ;))

McDonalds in Australia was the worst food I've ever eaten, and I used to frequently eat from a Taco Cart in Hollywood.

whaaaat??? aw man. there goes the only reason to eat em....and even that was pretty marginal.

next you'll tell me they dont pack canned hams in that cool pork flavored sammich spread anymore.

McD's yes, but sorry to tell you there's no Outback Steakhouse. Boo Hoo. *phew*

...When you arrive, I'll just re-create our whole Rancho Del Zocalo luncheon / French Market Dinner experience.

We should've taken Lash and Stoat out to an Outback Steakhouse while they were here... just so they could laugh at us.

Like "this is what Americans think Austrailians are like."? You could have just shown them a Foster's Beer comerc;) ial.

When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was about the Green Bay Packers...;)

Matt- your avator is freaking me out.

I hate bugs. I hit my monitor the first time I saw it....:rolleyes:

LOL. me too. I tried to squish it with my thumb

ah, much preferrable to McDonalds or jelly cheese-meat thing from hell. :)