Name: Sweet-breads for Invalids
Ingredients: sweetbreads; coarse sea salt; oil or butter for greasing

Sweet-breads for Invalids

Ingredients

sweetbreads
coarse sea salt
oil or butter for greasing

Directions

Boil the sweetbreads slowly until tender but not broken.
Drain the sweetbreads and heat a grill.
Grease the grill bars to prevent sticking.
Broil the sweetbreads quickly over hot coals until they are a delicate brown.

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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Sweet-breads for Invalids