new to head cheese

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tc fish bum

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Oct 23, 2013
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if you look in curing you will see i posted a butcher i just did with 4 inch thick bacon. I know right. any ways i had mentioned i got drafted to make head cheese or souse with the left over head. it sounds fun,,,, only problem is i dont even know where to start. can anyone help? crankybuzzard  told me to find atomic smoke
 
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well in all the research that i have done i have deduced that head cheese is just roast meat floating in aspic. and it seems as varied and different as pizza is from shop to shop. so there is really no wrong way to make it as long as its roast meat with at least more or less amount of gel depending on who is making it. with that being said, can i brine and smoke different cuts to add into the aspic when i go to build my casing? [ hearts and tongue] im making it in bolg cases. gonna do one head cheese and with the same batch add vinegar or white wine and some sort of pickel- dont know yet- to make souse. if this is the case then head cheese/souse is super easy! 
 
Ofcourse...You can add to it: Tongue, heart, skin, tail, feet.

Never tried roasting the meat for headcheese. The idea is to get the gelatin in the cooking liquid, which you will add to the meat. If you roast the meat where do you get gelatin for aspic? Store? You can cure/cold smoke meat then make the Headcheese. Or smoke the Headcheese like I did.
 
Sorry, thats what i was trying to say, it just came out wrong.gotta braise everything to get your gel, but it would work if i added brined and smoked tongue when i build my casing then to the head meat thats been braised.
 
Im looking for that pink pop in the slice along with a smoky what was that in the bite. I am hoping it stands out and doesnt get muddled
 
I was thinking about curing the tongues and hearts i have then smoking them and adding them when i build the meat/broth braise in the casing. I would have the grey back drop of the braised meat sprinkled with the pink pop of the cured smoked meat.if it works
 
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