Some time ago, we bought half a pig for the freezer from our structural engineer. At the time he asked if we wanted the head as well and of course I said yes. It has languished hidden in the freezer since then, until the other day when Greg accidentally defrosted it thinking it was a leg of lamb! So we are now making brawn...
The recipe began by telling us to remove all the bristles on the head. We eventually discovered that a razor works much quicker than tweezers!
In other news, I had a small little accident in my car before Xmas on an icy patch of road and Jon has wonderfully been fixing my car for me -- so I made him this lovely apple pie -- I hope it tastes as good as it looks!
Other than that, not much really... Some rain, but what else is new? :)
6 comments:
Glad you are ok after the accident!
Yikes...those icy patches can be tricky...and who wouldn't love that pie? It looks great!
Where did you get the brawn recipe? Does a little soaking in warm water get the bristles out any quicker?
Just answered the first question by spotting the link - really must pay closer attention.
The brawn recipe we used was actually not the one I linked to. We used the recipe from The River Cottage Meat Book which I would highly recommend if you don't have it already. As for the bristles, it wasn't that they were hard to get out with the tweezers -- there were just so many of them!
The pie looks great. The pigs head, not so great.
Ooooooh! that rain brings back memories! Dave once thought he was getting a curry out of the freezer, he ended up with mushy peas! (he's colour blind) The moral of the story is label your packages!! Happy New Year xx
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