
Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 37. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.
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Dress the head and boil until done, remove the bones from the meat, take all the meat from the upper part of the head and chop fine, and put it into the soup, with chopped potatoes and carrots, chives, pepper, salt, parsley, sweet margery, and a little butter.
Stir a little flour and milk together to thicken the soup.
Make a hash of the meat from the under jaw.
Take the brains from the head, beat up eggs as for an omelet, turn this over the brains after seasoning with salt and pepper.
Melt some butter and turn on.
Set it in the oven to cook slowly.
Skin and slice the tongue; put into a saucepan, with butter, pepper, and salt.
Stew dry.