# Mennonite Sous

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**Created:** [August 1, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mennonite-sous/837981 "2019-08-01T04:34:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mennonite-sous/837981/1 "2019-08-01T04:34:50Z")

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From the Michener novel “Centennial”, the chapter concerning Mennonites told of a dish called sous. It’s basically an aspic of stewed pork knuckles. Is this still a thing? I know aspics are now viewed as one of the oddities of '60s and '70s cooking. I’d like to try it though.

Note: can’t find it in wiki, what with all these sous vide items.

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**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mennonite-sous/837981/2 "2019-08-01T04:45:14Z")

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If you search for pork aspic, you’ll find plenty of recipes to try.

[Here’s one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWp5ljw8L4M) that may be close to what you read about, though the seasoning definitely isn’t what they would have used.

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**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mennonite-sous/837981/3 "2019-08-01T05:09:42Z")

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I take that back altogether.

The book was describing [head cheese.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese)

[Here](http://amishamerica.com/amish-pork-recipes/#head-cheese) here is a recipe for sous **e**.

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**Author:** ![Rayks\_Marcial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@Rayks\_Marcial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayks_Marcial)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mennonite-sous/837981/4 "2019-08-01T23:53:51Z")

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^  
Nice one. Almost exactly as Michener described it. I cook knuckles with black eyed peas and three hours simmer still leaves them intact. To cook them till the meat slides off must take at least 5 hours.