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Pimientito
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Joined: Jul. 30 2007
From: Marbella
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 RE: Boars head (in reply to fevictor)
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Thank you very much. That looks like the way to get the head glazed and crispy.
I found this very very old french recipe for stuffing the head (although the truffles might be a bit expensive)
Bone the head, leaving only the jawbones (for shape) and tusks. Make a small quantity of stuffing composed of minced pig's liver, chopped apples, a little onion, sage and rosemary. Arrange this stuffing all around the inside of the head about half an inch in thickness. Now stuff the rest of the inside of the head with a second stuffing made of sausage meat, squares of ox tongue, chopped truffles, chopped apples, chopped mushrooms, chopped pistachio nuts and minced rosemary. Add one wineglass of Calvados (or sherry) and an equal quantity of cream.
When the head is filled tight with this, stitch a very strong cloth over the stuffing, then bind the whole head in another strong cloth, and put it in a large pot of boiling water to boil slowly for about eight to nine hours, during which time you add more boiling water as evaporation requires. When the head is cooked and is still warm reshape in cloth, remove the wrapping and let it get cold.
The ears, which have been cut off and boiled separately, are then replaced on the head with a skewer.
Place the head on an oblong dish, surround it with slices of truffles, slices of apples, and strew with rosemary.
--from The Viscomte in the Kitchen by Vicomte de Mauduit
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Date Dec. 21 2009 4:04:42
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Kate
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Joined: Jul. 8 2003
From: Living in Granada, Andalucía
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RE: Boars head (in reply to Pimientito)
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Pimiento, there is a 15th century song that you are supposed to sing to the Boar's Head. I couldn't find the music,but thought you should have the lyrics and you could improvise a flamenco version. My Dad actually sang this to me over the phone when he heard me and Mum discussing you cooking a Boar''s Head. Mum says they used to have it at the Hunt Ball when we lived in Newcastle and they always sang this. The fact my Dad sang it is even more amazing as he has Alzheimers and no memory !
The boar's head in hand bring I, (Or: The boar's head in hand bear I,)
Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary.
I pray you, my masters, be merry (Or: And I pray you, my masters, merry be)
Quot estis in convivio (Translation: As many as are in the feast)
Chorus :
Caput apri defero (Translation: The boar's head I offer)
Reddens laudes Domino (Translation: Giving praises to the Lord)
The boar's head, as I understand,
Is the rarest dish in all this land,
Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland
Let us servire cantico. (Translation: Let us serve with a song)
Repeat chorus
Our steward hath provided this
In honour of the King of Bliss;
Which, on this day to be served is
In Reginensi atrio. (Translation: In the Queen's hall)
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Date Dec. 23 2009 7:19:51
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Pimientito
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From: Marbella
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RE: Boars head (in reply to Kate)
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Estevan is going to send me a recording of this song. Apparently it is still sung at many institutions in the UK that still celebrate the feast of the boars head. This is an ancient Christmas tradition that started as a decorated dish and served asthe centrepiece of the pre christian solstice feast. Over time the tradition was christianised and the boar became a symbol of death which Jesus "slew" at his resurection.
Tradition traces the most popular version of the "Boar's Head" festival to Queen's College, in Oxford, England. According to legend, a student who was attacked by a boar on Christmas Eve in 1340 overcame the animal by ramming a book of Aristotle down its throat. At the subsequent Christmas-day feast, pork was on the menu. But, in honor of Christmas, the boar's head was presented, not to the hapless scholar, but to the Christ Child whose birth was being celebrated.
There is a variation of the third verse which is
Be glad, lords, both more or less,
For this hath ordained our steward
To cheer you all this Christmas,
The boar's head with mustard.
Yet another boars head christmas carol to be found in Wynken de Wordes Christmasse carols,1521
Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell,
Tidings good I think to tell.
The boar’s head that we bring here
Betokeneth a prince without peer,
Is born this day to buy us dear,
Nowell.
A boar is a sovran beast,
And acceptable in every feast,
So mote this lord be to most and least,
Nowell.
This boar’s head we bring with song,
In worship of him that thus sprung
Of a virgin to redress all wrong,
Nowell.”
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