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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In cookery, portions of the head and feet of swine cut into fine pieces, seasoned, and, after being boiled, pressed into the form of cheese. Also called brawn.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig

Examples

  • “The chef talked about cooking the hog's head; he didn't smoke it, though, I think he boiled it (and made a head-cheese torte that was tasty).”

    How to make cow head barbacoa | Homesick Texan

  • “I tried tripe for the first time as well as head-cheese.”

    Incanto, an offally delicious trattoria

  • “There the pails and pans were washed and sunned, the meats chopped, the sausage made, head-cheese moulded, ham and bacon salted, and the lard tried out over the out-door fires.”

    The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

  • “Germans to-day eat wild boar, head-cheese, pickles, goose's flesh dried, sausages, cheese, and salads for supper, and wash down with beer.”

    Manners and Social Usages

  • “I want to speak for some of the sausage," said Maria; "and a half a fresh ham, and half a salt, and some head-cheese, and some of the salted-down pork.”

    Criss-cross

  • “The children were at school when it came, and Jenny Miller, coming in by chance to bring a pot of head-cheese of her mother's making, found”

    "Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus

  • “You can be as æsthetic as you're a mind to with the head-cheese and candles. ”

    A Princess in Calico

  • “Becky scouring the brass furnace-kittle with salt and vinegar. Killin 'time, you know -- makes you think of boiling souse and head-cheese.”

    The Desert and the Sown

  • “Then the heads and feet had to be soaked and scraped over and over again, and when ready were boiled, the one being converted into head-cheese, the other into souse.”

    Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago

  • “Sausages, rolliches, and head-cheese were made, lard tried out, and tallow saved.”

    Home Life in Colonial Days

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