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[Deepblade]

Head Cheese, if you don't know what it is, is a meat jelly made from the head of animals, most commonly a calf or pig, according to wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese

This could be the Dwarves contribution to the culinary world. After all, with their "style" of cooking it seems like they would be the first to attempt such a thing

[darknessofthenight]

I always thought that prepared brain meant head cheese. Also the way the butchery system works you would have to add a new option, butcher animal and remove head, when the only point of removing the head, would be to make head cheese.

[Deepblade]

The way I always figured it prepared organs were usually smoked or salted.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-head-cheese.htm
says near the end of the article that "Modern cooks who wish to produce their own head cheese but lack ready access to a fresh pig’s head can substitute pork shoulder and unflavored gelatin."

So, just being loose with it we can take meat and tallow/fat and make "head" cheese. It won't be from the head exactly though. Just meat suspended in gelatin, which sounds like dwarven cooking to me.

[Kazymir]

Replace gelatin with tallow, and that's already what Dwarves eat.

[NAV]

Gelatin would have to be added to the game first

[Kazymir]

It'd be fairly easy to add a reaction to boil down hooves and make gelatin, as long as you classed it as a cheese.

[Umune]

Why don't we have a task to decapitate things in the first place?

[GoombaGeek]

My great-grandma has made sweetbreads (unknown style - there's probably lots of different things called sweetbreads) before. No, it's not pancreas meat - you scrape pork from the legs of a pig and toss it in a big boiling pot. Then you add the pig foot so the entire thing congeals into a gelatinous mass of meat scrapings (the foot is removed when set). It's very mysterious overall.