Souse Meat

7 ingredients
4 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 hog's head
  • salt
  • 4 tsp. pepper
  • 2 tsp. red pepper
  • 2 1/2 tsp. allspice
  • 3 tsp. cloves
  • vinegar (optional)

Directions

  1. 1
    Clean the hog's head by removing snout, eyes, ears, brains and all skin.
  2. 2
    Trim off fat.
  3. 3
    Cut head in four pieces and soak in salt water (1/2 cup salt to 1 gallon cold water) for 3 hours to draw out blood.
  4. 4
    Drain off salt water and wash well in cold water. (Heart, tongue and other meat trimmings may be cooked with head meat.)

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