Sweetbread Timbales

Ingredients

• one large sweetbread
• three tablespoonfuls of chopped mushrooms
• a scant half-pint of cream
• one tablespoonful of flour
• one teaspoonful of butter
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• one-eighth of a teaspoonful of white pepper
• one-fourth of a teaspoonful of onion juice

Method

1. 1

   Clean the sweetbreads, and then boil them in slightly salted water for twenty minutes.

2. 2

   Take them from the boiling water, and put them into a bowl of cold water for ten minutes.

3. 3

   When they are perfectly cold, cut them into dice.

4. 4

   Add the chopped mushrooms to them.

5. 5

   Mix four tablespoonfuls of the cream with the flour.

6. 6

   Put the balance of the cream into a small saucepan on the stove.

7. 7

   When the cream boils, add the flour, pouring in slowly and stirring from the bottom all the time.

8. 8

   When this boils, add the sweetbreads, mushrooms, and seasoning.

9. 9

   Simmer for five minutes; then add the butter, and take from the fire.

10. 10

    Decorate six moulds with truffles, and then line with the force-meat, the same as directed for chicken timbales.

11. 11

    Nearly fill the moulds with the sweetbread preparation.

12. 12

    Cover with force-meat, and cook as directed for chicken timbales.

13. 13

    Serve with supreme or Bechamel sauce.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 187. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweetbread Timbales. Make the white chicken force-meat (see chapter on "Garnishes"). Make a filling with one large sweet- bread or a pair of small ones, — there should be a half- pint when it is cut into dice, — three table-spoonfuls of chopped mushrooms, a scant half-pint of cream, one table-spoonful of flour, one teaspoonful of butter, half a teaspoon ful of salt, one-eighth of a teaspoonful of white pepper, and one-fourth of a teaspoonful of onion juice

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