The modern packing house : $b A complete treatise on the design, construction, equipment and operation of meat packing houses, according to present American praactice, including methods of converting by-products into commercial articlesWilder, F. W. (Fred William)
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The modern packing house : $b A complete treatise on the design, construction, equipment and operation of meat packing houses, according to present American praactice, including methods of converting by-products into commercial articles
Wilder, F. W. (Fred William)
Packing-houses
_Stuffed Hogs Heads._--Select a well shaped head, cut off about three
to four pounds behind the ears and remove the bones. Care should be
taken in entering above the eyes, where the skin is thinnest and lies
directly on the bone. Do not remove the snout bones, but saw off the
hindmost jaw bone right behind the mouth. Remove the cheek meat on
either side until with the skin it is about one-half inch thick. Cut
off about three inches square from the lower cheek at the back to make
the head more shapely. Sew from the snout up the back bone, where the
head is to be filled and cut around cover from the skin to fit the back
opening. Prepare the stuffing as follows:
Good firm young pork, moderately fat, is coarsely chopped with the
required quantity of salt and allowed to stand twenty-four hours. Use
about ten pounds chopped fine, spiced with five and one-quarter ounces
of salt, one-half ounce of ground white pepper, seventy-seven grains of
finely ground mace, mixed with one pound of boiled tongue meat cut into
shape of dice, one-half the size of a walnut. Mix all thoroughly and
fill head with the mass. Sew the cover on and smoke for two hours until
it turns to a yellow brown color. After it is smoked, tie the head up
in a cloth, wrapping a string around it very evenly from front to rear.
Cook in boiling water from three to three and one-half hours, and then
allow to cool. The head must be a chestnut brown when thoroughly smoked
and cooked.
_Scrapple._--For making scrapple use two pig heads, two pig tongues and
two pig livers. These should be cooked in an iron-jacketed kettle that
will hold about forty-five gallons. Cover thoroughly and then remove
from kettle and cut up the same as for head cheese. After the heads,
tongues and livers are taken from the water, skim the grease and add
forty pounds of corn meal and five pounds of buckwheat to the water,
putting in a little at a time, stirring as put in. Cook slowly for five
hours. Seasoning should be added before buckwheat and corn meal are put
in, consisting of:
2 ounces white pepper,
1 ounce red pepper,
8 ounces sage,
4 pounds salt.
After the meal and water has been cooked about four hours and
forty-five minutes, add the heads, tongues and livers, stir thoroughly
about fifteen minutes, shut off steam, and place in pan. When about
cool, but while plastic, add to each pan top a coating of the grease
skimmed from cooking.
_Bologna Sausage in Oil._--This is a sausage manufactured quite
extensively by packers, who find the principal markets for it in the
south. In fact, it is not used anywhere but in warm climates and it is
usually put up in twenty-pound and fifty-pound tin packages.
Much experimenting has been done to ascertain the best size for
packages to put up sausage in oil. The following formula is generally
considered to be a good method for making this sausage:
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