Brawn in a Basin

1/12th scale White China Basin with the word "Brawn" on the side. 

most commonly whole pig's head, boiled with spices until fallen and set as a slab in their own jelly, eaten cold. Brawn' originally meant 'muscle', and came to mean boiled-down muscle-meat only in the 17th Century. An early receipt  has buttocks boiled with pepper, cloves, nutmeg, mace, salt and wine. In the North-East, brawn is sometimes coloured red.