Gaspe Head Cheese (Meat Terrine)

(from withglowinghearts’s recipe box)

Source: Ricky and Virginia Sinnett

Cook time: 240 minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 lbs pork hocks
  • 2 lbs stewbeef or shank
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 5-6 onions

Directions

  1. Put meat in a pot and cover with cold water.

  2. Bring to a boil and turn down and simmer for 3 hours.

  3. Take meat out of the water (save water) and remove fat.

  4. Put meat through a chopper or grinder.

  5. Put back in the water with the onions, salt and pepper.

  6. Boil for another ½ hour.

  7. Put in whatever size plastic containers.

  8. If for freezing: When take out of freezer, put back in a pot, bring to a boil and reset it.

  9. Aunt Marjorie’s tips: You can leave the water overnight and then take off the fat from on top of the water and also apparently, Grandpa also used this to make his meat pies!

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