Sweet Breads

Ingredients

• Put a tablespoon of butter
• add a tablespoon of flour
• Pour in % pint of sweet milk or cream
• Season with salt
• and cayenne pepper

Method

1. 1

   Soak the sweet breads in cold water for one hour, then cover with boiling water and boil for fifteen minutes.

2. 2

   Throw into cold water and set away until needed.

3. 3

   In a hot pan with butter, cut sweetbreads into small pieces and stir until heated.

4. 4

   Add flour and stir until browned.

5. 5

   Pour in sweet milk or cream, season, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 (1913) by Helen Bruce Wallace, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet Breads (Miss Margaret S. Eutherford.) Soak the sweet breads in cold water one hour, then cover with boiling water and boil fifteen minutes. Throw into cold water and when cold set away until you want to use them. In cutting use a silver knife. Put a tablespoon of butter in a pan and make it very hot. Cut the sweetbreads in small pieces and stir them in the butter until well heated, then add a tablespoon of flour and stir until the flour is nicely browned. Pour in % pint of sweet milk or cream. Season with salt and cayenne pepper

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