Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig

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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 Homesick Texan 2009

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

    Incanto, an offally delicious trattoria 2006

  • 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 Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • 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 Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

  • "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 1914

  • 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 Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

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

    A Princess in Calico Edith Ferguson Black 1896

  • 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 Mary Hallock Foote 1892

  • 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 Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 1885

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

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

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