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Cowheel

Meats - Offal
Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland

Cowheel is the fatty cartilage from around a beast's heel. Chunks are boiled, and form a sweet, mucilaginous gravy.


Original Receipt in 'Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book' by Elizabeth Hammond (Hammond 1819)

Cow heels.
Boil till tender, (save the liquor they were boiled in, and use it for making soup), and serve with melted butter, mustard, and vinegar; or parsley and butter.

Or, having cut the heel into four parts, dip them in yolk of egg, strew grated bread over them, and fry of a nice brown in. dripping: fry sliced onions, lay them in the middle of the dish, and the heel round it.



See:
Cowheel Broth
Cowheel in Green Sauce
Cowheel Pie
Fried Cowheel
Fried Ox-Feet
Fried Tripe
Manchester Collared Pork
Steak and Cowheel




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