SC - sulte

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/4/00 1:58:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com 
writes:

<< Okay, Ras, time to have our semi-annual discussion on head cheese and
 souse, huh? ;  ) >>

There is little to discuss. Head cheese does not contain vinegar. Souse does. 
:-)

Scrapple on the other hand can be best described as a sort of meat flavored 
polenta. Although corn meal and sometime wheat flour is used in it's 
production, buckwheat flour is the most authentic starch for it's production, 
Scrapple also contains pork liver and pork hearts. All the ingredients are 
mixed together, cooked, put in loaf pans chilled, sliced dredged in flour and 
fried. It is often served with maple syrup and soft fried eggs.
 
Head cheese and souse are prepared by boiling the head and then removing the 
bones. The resulting mass is then mixed with the broth, and in the case of 
souse vinegar is added, allowed to chill into a gelatinous mass and sliced 
for serving cold. The garnish of choice is brown mustard.

Ras