Tails, ears, other offal recipes wanted.

[Loopeend]

Ecxcept liver. I really hate liver.

Due to having many foodblogs; and an interest in "what people used to eat" (Europe ancestry), I noticed.. mmm. I know my grand-parents and their parents before; ate everything from a pig/cow/chicken; but they never written recipes down! In the Dutch kitchen there is only 1 recipes left for pigtail. 1! Due to cultures living here that still use, and never stopped, to use ALL from an animal; I can finally buy tails/ears/thymus/blood/feet/brains/etc again. Jay! Lovely Asian recipes in plenty; but finding Europe-bases recipes gets a bit.. none-there; besides a haggis, a black pudding, and liver and kidneys. Many America people have European ancesters; maybe some recipes from "then" are still preserved in your family?

For example; my mom loved spiced fried pigbrain. They served it when she was young on special occasions. It was served with a sauce and specific vegetables and other condiments. The spices used were really expensive; it was truely a meal for special occasions. But she can't recall the condiments, sauce, vegatables, spices, or how they were exactly made. Due to old age. And noone actually wrote it down; since eating "offal" was for poor people; who couldn't read let alone write. Cookbooks were made by rich people. I'm looking for those recipes. They might still have been linguering on in some family's.


Other "offal" recipes also welcome. Okay fine, you can also talk about liver; for is someone else might read this and is interested.

 

[CCUK]

I really like haggis I've never made it and buy it ready to cook. I'm not particularly good at cooking
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/traditional-haggis-recipe
The other thing I love is black pudding or blutwurst. The German type is alot more savoury than the English type. The English type is exceptionally nice with a fried breakfast! I'm now hungry!

 

[Loopeend]

I really like haggis I've never made it and buy it ready to cook. I'm not particularly good at cooking
https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/traditional-haggis-recipe
The other thing I love is black pudding or blutwurst. The German type is alot more savoury than the English type. The English type is exceptionally nice with a fried breakfast! I'm now hungry!

Thanks! That's helpfull! I only know the black pudding and the Dutch bloodsausage. I'm going to look up the German blutwurst. It probably has other spices/preparing methods that it will be different enough to try

There is a famous asian pig-blatter soup; I'm now trying to make that with pigtail and European ingrediënts. Since I can't find any old European offal recipes; I thought; maybe I should convert other country's offal recipes with ingrediënts that were common over here? That's probably how they used offal. So pigtail, verjus (unripe grapejuice), and leek- broth it is! haha!

 

[HomesteaderWife]

Particularly interesting thing I saw one time was essentially blood pancakes. Not brave enough to try it myself, and obviously one of those things people should be safe about if they ever made it. I think they added it to thick pancake batter if I can remember?

 

[MROO]

Ecxcept liver. I really hate liver.

Due to having many foodblogs; and an interest in "what people used to eat" (Europe ancestry), I noticed.. mmm. I know my grand-parents and their parents before; ate everything from a pig/cow/chicken; but they never written recipes down! In the Dutch kitchen there is only 1 recipes left for pigtail. 1! Due to cultures living here that still use, and never stopped, to use ALL from an animal; I can finally buy tails/ears/thymus/blood/feet/brains/etc again. Jay! Lovely Asian recipes in plenty; but finding Europe-bases recipes gets a bit.. none-there; besides a haggis, a black pudding, and liver and kidneys. Many America people have European ancesters; maybe some recipes from "then" are still preserved in your family?

For example; my mom loved spiced fried pigbrain. They served it when she was young on special occasions. It was served with a sauce and specific vegetables and other condiments. The spices used were really expensive; it was truely a meal for special occasions. But she can't recall the condiments, sauce, vegatables, spices, or how they were exactly made. Due to old age. And noone actually wrote it down; since eating "offal" was for poor people; who couldn't read let alone write. Cookbooks were made by rich people. I'm looking for those recipes. They might still have been linguering on in some family's.


Other "offal" recipes also welcome. Okay fine, you can also talk about liver; for is someone else might read this and is interested.

In the "Little House" books, Laura and Mary Ingalls would put the pig tail on a stick and roast it over the fire. That sounds amazing, to me!

 

[DobieLover]

I just barfed in my mouth reading these posts! Sorry.
I agree that all parts of an animal should be used. A life was sacrificed. Show respect and honor it. I feed all the odd stuff to my dogs. They eat raw.
I will never forget the stench in the house the day my Dad made boiled calf brains. I'm scarred for life.

 

[Duckfarmer1]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...up-czarnina/&usg=AOvVaw24Yjl8CSFKijS6TveJCsRh

this is a recipe my grandmother used to make from duck blood...yes the blood! They say it was quite good. On my dad’s first dinner date to the house they served this soup, of course. Halfway through he says, “ this really good, what kind of soup is it?” When they told him, he was pretty shocked! But, he still continued to drink the soup until she died and tradition died too. So, if you make it, let’s me know how it is!!

 

[Mimi13]

There may be something you like in this site. https://www.greatitalianchefs.com/collections/offal-recipes

 

[MROO]

I'm not sure if I'm spelling this right, but a British friend used to make something he called "faggots." They were meant as a "meal food," but he made them very small and served them as appetizers. I know that one of the ingredients was very fatty pork trimmings and that they were mildly seasoned. He rolled them in little balls, wrapped each one completely in really fatty bacon, and baked them in the oven on a cookie sheet until they were sizzly brown and absolutely delicious! I asked him for the recipe several times, but he hemmed and hawed before finally telling me that I probably didn't want to know. I trusted his judgement and let sleeping dogs lie, but I never did enjoy them quite as much after that. I haven't seen him, or even thought about the treats, in a long time. Maybe I'll look them up, myself. Then again, maybe I'm better off just remembering how good they were and moving on!

 

[itsasmallfarm]

the only offal i will eat is heart. but know that you said it, i can not think of one recipe from my family's past that is organ or offal related (besides the common ones) but these are the things and ones i know of.
kidney pie was popular with my great grandparents.
stuffed heart also was popular with one of my great grand parents (they liked deer heart)
also liver and onions was a classic for them as well in fact the first thing my great grand parents and grandparents would cook up is the liver from there harvest of a deer (my grandpa only likes moose liver now)
also my aunt loved liver sausage.

the other ones i have heard about are as following
squirrel brains (read in a book from the 50's or 60's) that the author was told it was "the best eatin" off the squirrel
also watched a video a while back about seal blood pudding. and the same guy ate grouse and rabbit brains.

i read about tongue tacos from wild game (think its a south american dish though)