Calf's Brains on Toast

Ingredients

• three eggs
• salt
• pepper
• parsley
• two ounces of butter
• six or eight rounds of fried bread

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs and add seasoning.

2. 2

   Soak the brains, boil them, and cool in iced water.

3. 3

   Break them up and stir into the egg mixture.

4. 4

   Fry in butter for two minutes.

5. 5

   Serve on fried bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Calf's Brains on Toast. — Beat three eggs light ; add salt, pepper, and parsley. Take some brains after they have been soaked for a quarter of an hour, and drop them into boiling water, into which a little salt and vinegar has been put. The brains should be boiled hard for ten minutes, and then thrown into iced cold water. When well cooled, break them up, and stir in the eggs and seasoning. Have ready two ounces of butter in a frying-pan, pour in the mixture, and stir rapidly for two minutes until it looks like stirred eggs. Have ready six or eight rounds of fried bread

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