Brain Cakes

Ingredients

• Brain of two calves' heads
• two eggs
• one ounce of butter
• one table-spoonful of chopped parsley
• one tea-spoonful of salt
• one half tea-spoonful of pepper
• one salt-spoonful of powdered mace
• four table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Soak brains in salt water for an hour, boil for twenty minutes.

2. 2

   Chop and mix with butter, bread crumbs, and seasonings.

3. 3

   Form into cakes, dip in egg whites, roll in bread crumbs, and fry in hot fat for two minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 155. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brain Cakes. — Brain of two calves' heads, two eggs, one ounce of butter, one table-spoonful of chopped parsley, one tea-spoonful of salt, one half tea-spoonful of pepper, one salt-spoonful of powdered mace, four table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs

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