Name: Creamed Sweetbreads
Ingredients: 1 pair of sweetbreads; 1 cup white sauce; Canapés or toast for serving

Creamed Sweetbreads

Ingredients

1 pair of sweetbreads
1 cup white sauce
Canapés or toast for serving

Directions

Prepare

Prepare the sweetbreads by cutting them into small pieces with a silver knife.

Reheat and serve

Reheat the sweetbreads in 1 cup of medium white sauce.
Serve the creamed sweetbreads on canapés or toast.

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

Sweetbreads: Provide the tender, delicate meat that forms the body of the dish.
White sauce: Adds moisture and a creamy texture that coats the sweetbread pieces.

“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.