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This recipe calls for animal brains or related nervous-system tissue. Cattle brain and spinal tissue can transmit bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the cause of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, which is fatal and has no treatment.
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Calf's Head Pie
Half a calf's head with the skin on, boiled till tender, cut in squares, lay thin slices of bacon at the bottom of the pie-dish, lay squares of the head over, distributing fat, lean, and skin as equally as possible, not close together but with spaces for gravy to form jelly, another thick layer of bacon, and repeat squares as before till the dish is full.
Tongue in the middle at top. Four hard-boiled eggs cut in halves, mix brains, sage and eggs into forcemeat balls, sprinkle cayenne and nutmeg, fill in the dish with good stock reduced from the liquor the head was boiled in. Cover with rough puff paste, and bake.
Chaudfroid of Chicken (No. 1).
Ingredients.
One cold boiled Chicken.
Half a pint of Béchamel Sauce.