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Head cheese, Elizabeth's restaurant, New Orleans. Head cheese (Dutch: hoofdkaas) or brawn is a meat jelly or terrine made of meat. [1] Somewhat similar to a jellied meatloaf, [1] it is made with flesh from the head of a calf or pig (less commonly a sheep or cow), typically set in aspic. It is usually eaten cold, at room temperature, or in a ...
Burning the wool off a head. Since 1998 and the mad cow epidemics, an EU directive forbids the production of smalahove from adult sheep, [8] due to fear of the possibility of transmission of scrapie, a deadly, degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats, though scrapie does not appear to be transmissible to humans.
The Merinizzata Italiana is a modern Italian breed of dual-purpose sheep from southern Italy. [1]: 246 [2] It was created in the twentieth century by cross-breeding local Italian stock with imported Merino breeds from France and Germany. It is reared in central and southern Italy, principally in Abruzzo.
A sheep in its first year is called a lamb, and its meat is also called lamb. The meat of a juvenile sheep older than one year is hogget; outside North America this is also a term for the living animal. [1] The meat of an adult sheep is mutton, a term only used for the meat, not the living animal.
Pacha is a traditional Iraqi dish made from sheep's head, trotters, and stomach; all boiled slowly and served with bread sunken in the broth. [16] The cheeks and tongues are considered the best parts.
' Roman pecorino ') is a hard, salty Italian cheese made from sheep's milk, often used for grating over pasta or other dishes. The name pecorino means 'ovine' or 'of sheep' in Italian; the name of the cheese, although protected, is a description rather than a brand: [formaggio] pecorino romano means 'sheep's [cheese] of Rome'.
Peperoni cruschi, a variety of dry pepper typical of Lucanical cuisine. The cuisine of Basilicata, or Lucanian cuisine, is the cuisine of the Basilicata region of Italy. It is mainly based on the use of pork and sheep meat, legumes, cereals and vegetables, with the addition of aromas such as hot peppers, powdered raw peppers and horseradish.
The Gentile di Puglia is a breed of domestic sheep indigenous to southern Italy. [3] [4] It originates from the Tavoliere di Foggia, a large plain in the northern part of Puglia, and is raised mainly in that region; a few are found in neighbouring regions. [4] The Gentile di Puglia is sometimes known as the Merinos d'Italia, or Italian merino. [4]