South Park Sweetbreads

Ingredients

• two fine calf sweetbreads
• the yolks of four hard-boiled eggs
• one third of a cupful of fresh butter
• one tablespoonful of brandy
• one tablespoonful of flour
• a cupful of cream
• salt to taste
• pepper
• nutmeg
• one-half cupful of sherry

Method

1. 1

   Parboil sweetbreads, break into pieces.

2. 2

   Rub yolks to a paste with butter and brandy.

3. 3

   Cook flour and butter, add cream, salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

4. 4

   Stir until thick, add sherry and yolk paste, then sweetbreads and chopped egg whites.

5. 5

   Simmer for 2 minutes and serve with biscuits or toast.

As published

This recipe was extracted from High living (1904) by Linie Loyall McLaren,, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one tablespoonful of color (or lard), one tablespoonful of 20 vinegar, salt, chopped parsley, thyme, cayenne pepper, four whole potatoes, six small onions and one-half pint of water. Cook over a slow fire about twenty minutes. Thicken with flour, and serve. OYSTERS AND POTATOES — Beat lightly with a fork one pint of hot mashed potatoes. Blanch, chop fine and pound to a paste, with a little thick cream, eight ounces of almonds. Add these to the potatoes. Beat together until creamy, pile on a platter, and garnish with large fried oysters and slices of lemon. SOUTH PARK SWEETBREADS — Parboil two fine calf sweetbreads and break into neat pieces. Rub to a paste the yolks of four hard-boiled eggs, one third of a cupful of hesh butter, add one tablespoonful brandy. Put in the blazer one tablespoon- ful each of flour and butter, cook one minute and add a cupful of cream, salt and pepper and nutmeg to taste. Stir till it thickens and then add one-half cupful of sherry

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