Head dishes

type of food

cold cut non-dairy meat jelly or terrine

Smalahove (also called smalehovud, sau(d)ehau(d) or skjelte) is a Western Norwegian traditional dish made from a sheep's head, originally eaten before Christmas. The name of the dish comes from the combination of the Norwegian words hove and smale. Hove is a dialectal form of hovud, meaning "head" (cf. Hǫfuð), and smale is a word for sheep, so smalahove literally means "sheep head". The skin and fleece of the head are torched, the brain removed, and the head is salted, sometimes smoked, and dried. The head is boiled or steamed for about three hours, and served with mashed swede/rutabaga and po

Sisig ( ) is a Filipino dish made from pork jowl and ears (maskara), pork belly, and chicken liver, which is usually seasoned with calamansi, onions, and chili peppers. It originates from the Pampanga region in Luzon.

thumb|right|250px|Svið served with mashed potatoes and Rutabaga|swede in [[Reykjavík.]]

18th century dish

thumb|300px|Botillo from El Bierzo thumb|300px|Portuguese botelo, in Mirandela

European dish made from calf's head

Tobă, "caș de cap de porc" (which means "pig head cheese"), is a kind of head cheese, a traditional Romanian delicatessen item which looks like a wide sausage, around four inches in diameter, usually using a pig's stomach, stuffed with pork jelly, liver, and skin suspended in aspic. It is similar to the Hungarian Disznófősajt (which means "pig head cheese").

thumb|Knipp, raw thumb|Knipp, warm on wholemeal bread thumb|A plate of pan-fried Knipp with apple sauce Knipp (; in the Hanover area: Calenberger Pfannenschlag) is a type of sausage made by mixing meat with grains (Grützwurst) related to Pinkel which comes from the Bremen and Lower Saxon regions of Germany.

thumb|Möpkenbrot from Bochum, Germany. The top image is the raw lump product freshly sliced open. The bottom image shows it prepared as a typical dish in a frying pan with onions. Möpkenbrot, also spelled as Möppkenbrot, is a type of cooked German sausage prepared using pork, grain, apples and raisins. Its preparation is similar to that of blood sausage. The main ingredients are bacon, pig masks (consisting of pig's head meat, rinds and skin), pork rind, pork blood, and grated rye or wheat flour. The ingredients are formed into a dough, which is then boiled, after which it is typically sliced

Filipino dish

German head cheese with tongue

Northeastern Argentina dish

Mavželj (minced pork filling in net) is a national Slovene dish. It is known mostly in Slovene Carinthia and also in Upper Carniola. It is made of the soup in which the pork head was cooked, and of the remnants of the meat and the brains of the same pork head. The dish is ball-shaped and comes in various local variations. In the past, the preparation of this net wrapped ball called mavželjni was much more popular than today. Potters made special earthen baking moduls to fit their shape. The dish was mainly eaten on holidays.

type of offal