

My bit of research shows that traditionally this is served with maple syrup. I fry my pon haus with a mix of coconut oil and butter until a crunchy golden brown. When I’m ready to fry it, I dump the pon haus from my pans and slice 1/4″ thick. I place the pans into the fridge for at 3-5 hours. I pour my prepared pon haus into a loaf pan for chilling. Very simple and easy to make.Īt this point pon haus may be eaten like corn grits, but I prefer it fried. I use corn meal (fine ground is best, trust me on this lol), broth, meat, and salt. Here is where my pon haus recipe is different from most. Now I have 9 cups of broth so I just add another cup of water and make two recipes. One recipe makes a loaf pan of prepared pon haus and each recipe calls for 5 cups of broth. I cut the longer pieces of meat into small pieces and set it aside for later. The oxo fat separator you see in the photo below is amazing! (affiliate link) After picking out the meat, I strain the broth and remove the grease.

The vinegar draws the nutrients from the bones and the result is a highly nutritious bone broth.īecause I use just bones and not all the other stuff, I choose to separate the meat from the fat, bone and gristle. I cover them with water and add 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar, then simmer for several hours. I toss the joints and add the bones to my pan. I take all the bones that we cut the meat from and cut off the joints. While I can see the nutritious benefits to adding all of that into your pot, let me be clear and say I do not! Making Pon Haus ~ My Way Gross right? Everything is cooked and then the broth is strained out and used. Into a pan goes things like the bones, pork skin, pork heart, pork liver, pork tongue-even pork brains. Pon haus and scrapple are often made after butchering a hog. Some of the things people add to the broth making process make me shudder, each to their own I suppose. They use broth from bones and other parts of a pig, that would otherwise be considered unusable. Scrapple and pon haus do have one thing in common. My method of making pon haus is pretty simple compared to some. In fact, my pon haus recipe isn’t much like the recipes I found online either. After doing a quick pon haus and scrapple recipe search on Google, I disagree. German recipes: pon haus and scrapple are considered the same thing by many.
