Potted Hough

[liketocook Profile]

Our village butcher in Norfolk used to make Pork Cheese in the summer. It was set in pudding basins and sold in that shape.The jelly separated from the meat so there was a distinct layer. It was a real treat.

It was many years before I learned that pork cheese and brawn (which we bought ready cut in rectangular slices with the meat spread evenly across the jelly) were the same thing!

Great recipe, ltc. I wish I had a big enough pan!

It would be fairly easy to scale down EM if you fancy a project.

[Suffs Profile]

I've made brawn in the past using half a pig's head in a preserving pan ... Ma used to use half a brined/pickled pig's head ordered from the butcher ... only available from the village butcher in the autumn when he was salting pork hock and belly for 'petit sale' ... and that was always in the autumn as the weather began to cool ... you couldn't leave pork in brine in the heat of summer ... they didn't have the big chillers they have nowadays.

[Seatallan Profile]

My East Anglian father loved brawn. As do I actually.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Our butcher only made pork cheese very ocassionally so word got out and people rushed to get some. It sounds as though it might have been that time of year rather than high summer but it was still the sort of weather you had salad. Curious now!

Yes, ltc. I'm feeling it should be something one tries at least once - like a proper pork pie! I must seek out a butcher.

[ZeroCook Profile]

Great - thanks for posting LTC. To be made soon OH will like it a lot. I've been eyeing up beef shin in one of the better more varied supermarket meat depts as it's one of my favourite cuts and happily still cheap - love all the 'cheap' cuts (not so cheap anymore - e.g. oxtail)and offally bits.

The family brawn recipe had small chopped chunks of pork and trotter skin set in the jelly, along with sliced hardboiled eggs and sometimes gherkins/cornichons or olives. Often a summer dish along with a cold lunch or supper buffet.

[Suffs Profile]

Our family brawn has to contain sliced pigs ear.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Gosh, Zerocook, can you get shin on the bone in your supermarket? They must have a really proper butchery department!

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Our Waitrose meat counter does beef shin on the bone and I’ve seen it in M&S food too.

[Lusciouslush Profile]

My East Anglian father loved brawn

As did my Welsh father, made 'properly' by a particular butcher in Swansea........!

I have never had Hough to my knowledge - unless called something else locally.

Our family brawn has to contain sliced pigs ear

I do like a bit of pigs ear.............which alarms most people.....

[Suffs Profile]

I love all the chewy bits Luscious … I’d rather have them than toffee

[ZeroCook Profile]

Our family brawn has to contain sliced pigs ear. :

Only ever seen pigs ears commonly on sale in Spain. On asking I was yold the fry them there. Never had them but sound good. Like trotters when boiled?

Gosh, Zerocook, can you get shin on the bone in your supermarket? They must have a really proper butchery department!

I was surprised. I had previously asked the same meat dept for lambs bits for DIY haggis but not to be had.

[Suffs Profile]

Our family brawn has to contain sliced pigs ear. :

Only ever seen pigs ears commonly on sale in Spain. On asking I was yold the fry them there. Never had them but sound good. Like trotters when boiled?….

Yes, but with a bit more ‘bite’ … like al dente pasta

[Lusciouslush Profile]

I love all the chewy bits Luscious … I’d rather have them than toffee

Snap......! Me too!!
There have been occasions when I have been called a 'dawg' .....am I bovvered? nope! they don't know what they're missing...

In Spain they're cooked as a tapa - crispy & crunchy on the outside, soft & chewy on the inside.........more drooling................

[Suffs Profile]

Drooling here too ...

[Badger's Mate Profile]

Crispy pigs's ears are often served at St John Bread & Wine.

[patpoyntz Profile]

Crispy pigs's ears are often served at St John Bread & Wine.

And a great favourite at Tom Kitchins ‘The Kitchin’ and his gastropub Scran and Scally. I love them.
Our Dalmatian used to get them for a treat, bought at our local pet shop…very inexpensive compared to the restaurant ones!

[northleedsbhoy Profile]

Crispy pigs's ears are often served at St John Bread & Wine.

And a great favourite at Tom Kitchins ‘The Kitchin’ and his gastropub Scran and Scally. I love them.
Our Dalmatian used to get them for a treat, bought at our local pet shop…very inexpensive compared to the restaurant ones!

My friends dog has a pigs ear as a treat as well - they get them from a local shop.

Cheers
NLB

[Lusciouslush Profile]

Does this mean I have to start shopping at pet stores.......?!?!

[MagicMarmite Profile]

I've had them at The Kitchin and as Dim sum in Dundee, Seewoo in Glasgow used to sell them in their Butcher's section, no idea if they still do, not been since Covid.
I saw a mention of St John B&W elsewhere earlier in the week, Harry Styles went there for his birthday!

[liketocook Profile]

Seewoo in Glasgow used to sell them in their Butcher's section, no idea if they still do, not been since Covid.

They still did when DS2 visited last year as he got one for my sister's pooch. Said pooch wasn't initially very sure what to make of it before yanking it under the table so no one could pinch it!