To Prepare Sweetbreads
Ingredients
Directions
Soak sweetbreads in cold water.
Transfer to boiling salted water or white stock and boil for 20 minutes until fully cooked.
Remove from heat and place in cold water for a few minutes to firm and bleach.
Once cold, carefully remove the skin and small pipes.
Store in a cool place.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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