Potted Beef

Ingredients

• Skinned Cow Head
• Salt
• Butter
• Pepper

Directions

1. Remove tongue from cow head.
2. Salt the tongue.
3. Wash the head and soak it in water for 1 hour.
4. Stew the head in a middle-sized pot filled with water until meat is soft.
5. Remove bones leaving the brains with the meat.
6. Stew meat and brain again to soften sufficiently for mortar use.
7. Beat remains into a jelly-like substance using mortar.
8. Remove gristle (tough inedible cartilage).
9. Season with salt and pepper.
10. Cool the remains and place into clean pot.
11. Cover the substance with melted butter.
12. Serve as jelly or spread.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by James A. Bailey
Louisiana Anthology
January 4, 2021