Veal Sweetbreads, to Roast
Ingredients
Directions
Lard the sweetbreads with small pieces of bacon and skewer them.
Fasten the skewered sweetbreads to a spit and roast until brown.
Place good gravy in a dish, lay in the sweetbreads, and serve very hot.
For browning, egg and bread the sweetbreads before roasting.
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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