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Composition of Calf's Sweetbread

A boiled calf sweetbread seasoned with coarse sea salt, served for convalescents.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Composition of Calf's Sweetbread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the sweetbread in water until cooked through.

  2. Season moderately with coarse sea salt.

  3. Serve as a dish for convalescents.

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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What each ingredient does

Sweetbread
Forms the entire dish, so its texture after boiling is the main thing the cook controls.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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