Head Cheese - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pig head
2 c. head meat juice or broth
1 c. vinegar
1/2 c. sugar
salt, pepper and mixed spice
2 Tbsp. unflavored gelatin

Preparation

Scald and scrape pig's head.
Cook pig head in a large kettle until meat falls off the bone.
Reserve the broth or juice.
Finely cut up meat.
Dissolve head meat juice, vinegar, sugar and gelatin in a saucepan.
Add salt, pepper and mixed spice to taste.
Simmer until thoroughly hot.
Place cut up meat in a bread loaf pan.
Pour mixture over the meat and let stand until it is cool.
Wrap and freeze.
Thaw and slice to eat like luncheon meat.