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To Prepare Sweetbreads

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Prepare Sweetbreads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the pipes and membranes from the sweetbreads.

  2. Soak the sweetbreads in cold water for 1 hour.

  3. Bring a pot of water to a boil and add a pinch of coarse sea salt.

  4. Boil the sweetbreads for 15 minutes.

  5. Transfer the sweetbreads to cold water for 5 minutes.

  6. Drain and dry the sweetbreads, then refrigerate until needed.

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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