Re: Explain Marrow Toast for her Huggy

Posted by MMMMarcia on March 12, 2001 at 14:48:22:

In Reply to: Re: Explain Marrow Toast for her Huggy posted by Clabert on March 12, 2001 at 14:34:56:

Clabert says:
: I`m with you guys. And the head cheese my French grandmother, or Nanny we called her, made is the best. It`s just the jowl meat from a pork head with spice and knox gelatin, pressed into a pan and cooled. then you cut it in squares and eat on crackers.

~~~~~~~~

Well, now Clabert, I just said that head cheese was NOT a southern creation, and I don't want to get in trouble with YOU, as I know you are a Southerner tried & true. BUT, I'm thinking perhaps head cheese is just an OLD dish that really isn't Northern OR southern, specifically. I know my father's people were as NORTHERN as you could get. And my mother's people are from Georgia going WAY back. My mother had never even HEARD of head cheese until she married my father. Or perhaps your grandmother brought the tradition from France with her?

Anyway, you can be forgiven since it DOES have the ever important hawg jowls in it, though the kind I got familiar with in Pennsylvania has a lot more than just that. It's more like blood pudding, a REALLY disgusting mess!

MMMM

Follow Ups:

• Re: Explain Marrow Toast for her Huggy Clabert 14:55:04 3/12/2001 (0)

Post a Followup

Name    : 
E-Mail  : 
Subject : 

Comments:
: Clabert says:
: : I`m with you guys. And the head cheese my French grandmother, or Nanny we called her, made is the best. It`s just the jowl meat from a pork head with spice and knox gelatin, pressed into a pan and cooled. then you cut it in squares and eat on crackers.

: ~~~~~~~~

: Well, now Clabert, I just said that head cheese was NOT a southern creation, and I don't want to get in trouble with YOU, as I know you are a Southerner tried & true.  BUT, I'm thinking perhaps head cheese is just an OLD dish that really isn't Northern OR southern, specifically.  I know my father's people were as NORTHERN as you could get.  And my mother's people are from Georgia going WAY back.  My mother had never even HEARD of head cheese until she married my father.  Or perhaps your grandmother brought the tradition from France with her?

: Anyway, you can be forgiven since it DOES have the ever important hawg jowls in it, though the kind I got familiar with in Pennsylvania has a lot more than just that.  It's more like blood pudding, a REALLY disgusting mess!

: MMMM 


Optional Link URL:  
Link Title:         
Optional Image URL: