Did anyone see "Manor House" on PBS? Apparently, hog's head was a common Edwardian delicacy. The cheeks, especially, are supposed to be delicious.
Me, I prefer cheese and chili tamales. Mmmm. -d ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:12 AM Subject: Re: Some good news? > not "were" but "are" still made that way! > > This is still a holiday family tradition among Tex-mex families in the South > Texas area, especially the financially challenged. > > Specialty meat markets, and now even the big chain grocers sell hogs heads for > the purposes. > They are usually boiled whole until done then scraped. I don't think the > tongue, ears or eyes are used, but most everything else is. > > The area, being a big pork production area, and has a number of pork packing > plants, hogs head is about as cheap as you can get, thus is very popular for > this very labor intensive production of quantizes of tamales. Use of hogs head > is not a gross as the name implies. > > Googling for tamale recipes, brings up sites that are not in the South Central > Texas area, and as a result the recipes have been "localized" and while they are > called traditional, they vary quite widely from the traditional. > > There are family owned tamale "plants" that only operate during the Christmas - > New Year time frame, and can employ up to 150 family members making tamales for > sale. One must usually make reservations a week to ten days ahead of time or > you cannot even buy them. Even then, on the day of purchase, lines form a > block long, and usually make the TV news. It is widely accepted that this "home > made" tamale is far superior than the usual factory made product. Fresh hogs > head, fresh garlic, Cilantro, and other local chilies are used. > > ====================================== > Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! > For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com > ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 > ====================================== > If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harkins,Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:52 AM > Subject: RE: Some good news? > > > | tamales were made with hog's head? > | > | > | >-----Original Message----- > | >From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | >Sent: June 13, 2003 10:50 AM > | >To: CF-Community > | >Subject: Re: Some good news? > | > > | > > | >Scrapple used similar ingredients that the Mexicans use in > | >making Tamales. And > | >they are a delicacy! > | > > | >Course ground corn meal = masa > | >principal source of meat for filling = hogs head > | > > | >yummmmmmmmm > | > > | > | > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
