An African Delicacy!
Today I bring you a delicacy of true African cuisine! A mutton dish better than the best rib, roasted on a bed of charcoal. A Baked Sheep Head.Yes, you read it right! No word play here. A real sheep’s head. It contains a lot of meat and is relatively cheap. Most butchers around here can supply you with a well cleaned head. It is so easy to prepare; even a man can do it!
When you get home, inspect the head and remove any hair still on it. I use a cutthroat to ‘shave’ it. Then saw the head across the top into two halves, but leave lower jaw intact. I use a garden saw to do this. You could ask the butcher to do it as well.
Flap the two halves open and clean out the nose section (easy, if it is not already done), but leave the brains in place. Another delicacy on toast - or just as it is.
Push the two halves together and clamp with a skewer. I use three bended canvas needles for this.
Dampen the head and rub some course salt on it. I normally sprinkle some barbeque spice at this stage too.
Preheat the oven to 160º C and bake for 4 hours.
Enjoy. Mine is only going into the oven now. You can eat it hot or cold. I prefer it cold. It tastes like something between a roasted rib and a sheep neck.
Here in Africa, women are not allowed to eat the tongue; it makes them talk too much, they say.
Eating the brains has a side effect though.
I find that if I share it with some female company, they mill around me for days and follow me in a line where ever I go; bleating like … Oh shut up, Catfoot!
Enjoy your day too!
Comments (109)
I'd rather choose that tongue and then hold my tongue/keep silent.
It is the idea that is weird, but I grew up with it. You don't have to acquire taste for it. It is normal meat and very tasty.
I can understand your disinclination. I had the same reluctance when I first ate mushrooms and snails. I first encountered them as an adult. We only read about them in magazines and pulled faces.
Actually, I was convinced that they were sea snails. By the time I discovered the truth, I was hooked!
Talk about fish, my mother refused to eat crayfish for her first forty years, but after she first tasted it could not get enough of it.
You know, the idea of eating caviar is making me sick, but it is probably very tasty. I'm just not used to it.
When I was young, my mom used to make pickled ox tongue. One day I gave some to my ex-wife (then my fiancé) and I she almost finished the whole tongue. Afterwards, when I told her what it was, she went to the bathroom and it all came out.
Enjoy your day
I will stick with my Horseburger
My friend it is not a taste to require. When the meat is off the bone, you will not know the difference. It tastes very much like sheep neck; just much more meat.
I had the same problem with ostridge neck; until somebody prepared it like ox tail. I loved it by the time I discoverd what it was.
I have 4 in the oven. I'm having some friends over tonight. Have you forgotten what happens tonight?
However, lamb... Not a chance. The smell makes me cringe... Even if your 'dish' was not unusual... I would still cringe.
When my grandfather was in his last days, my mother used a lot of mushrooms in his meat. He would only eat meat! The old man loved it; he went to his grave thinking it was kidneys!
Those people believed that if you eat the brains of your eneny you would aquire his skills and knowledge. And that you will learn about his plans.
Modern experiments on rats, by transferring brain fluid from one to another, seem to support this.
I'll stick to the snails and frog legs.
Don't bother sending me an invitation for tonight, I remember that I have something important to do.
Take care.
Ah, that is another one I cannot stomach. Frogs legs! They tried it here some decades ago, but it did not catch on. We South Africans are very consevative
Can I rather offer you some mopane worms; eaten alive! Very high in proteins, I'm told! Yech!
What about ant eggs as a replacement for rice? Also very rich in proteins.
Bon Appetite!
The last paragraph of my blog refers to this exactly!
This is why I put this blog on today. Eat some so you can understand my sheepish blog tomorrow!
How are you today?
the tongue and brain law has been applied everywhere... but not sure about the "following" spell..
Sometimes I wonder about people eating pig heads! Have not tried it, probably won't!
SHEEP OR COWS TONGUE AND HEART ARE EATEN HERE ALL THE TIME ALTHOUGH I DONT BUY THEM MUCH ANYMORE BUT Ì DO ENJOY THEM YUM
ACTUALLY RECENTLY I WAS IN LIVERPOOL ENGLAND WITH MY DAUGHTER AND AS WERE WALKED ALONG A SHOPPING MALL A BUTCHER SHOP HAD AN OPEN FRONT AND YOU COULD BUY LOTS DIFFERENT FRESHLY HOT COOKED MEATS
I SPOTTED SHEEP HEARTS AND BOUGHT A COUPLE JUST TO ANNOY MY DAUGHTER YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HER FACE HAHA SHE WENT GREEN
Funny, the peole here also eat all those you mentioned, but it is mostly used for animal food.
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That is why the big bad wolf ended up like that. Too many little pigs!
It looks great. What is in it?