Sousemeat

Quick meaning: Sousemeat is a noun meaning A foodstuff made by boiling souse (pickled feet, ears, etc of a pig) into a glutinous mass, seasoning it heavily, and shaping it into loaves.

Meaning

A foodstuff made by boiling souse (pickled feet, ears, etc of a pig) into a glutinous mass, seasoning it heavily, and shaping it into loaves.

Example Sentences

Meats eaten included many pork entrees such as salt pork, chitterlings and sousemeat.

One of his favorites was what we called sousemeat, a conglomeration of feet, ears, faces, and other parts that were cleaned thoroughly, boiled into a homogeneous glutinous consistency, seasoned heavily, and then formed into a large loaf.

Mr Fox rose and donned a white apron, old bloodstains bleached light pink, tied it in the back and approached the meatcase and switched on a light that illuminated rolls of baloney and rounds of cheese and a tray of thin sliced pork chops among the sausages and sousemeat.

But it was over to Jimmy's father, James Earl, for the really big gestures in cooking; he would conjure up waffles or battercakes for breakfast and a remarkable “special occasion” conglomeration called sousemeat of pigs' faces, ears, feet, and "other parts," which was boiled into a gloop, richly seasoned, and then shaped into a loaf.

Word Forms

• sousemeats

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include souse, sowl, sidemeat, sowbelly, sausagemeat, salume.

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