Name: How to Prepare Sweetbreads
Ingredients: sweetbreads; coarse sea salt; lemon juice

How to Prepare Sweetbreads

Ingredients

sweetbreads
coarse sea salt
lemon juice

Directions

Soak the sweetbreads in cold, salted water for several hours, changing the water occasionally.
Boil salted water with a little lemon juice.
Simmer the sweetbreads in the boiling water for twenty minutes without boiling.
Plunge the sweetbreads into cold water to harden.
Remove all pipes and skin from the sweetbreads.

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.