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Sweetbreads, Braised

Source of Recipe

Old cookbook-1940


Recipe Introduction

Sweetbreads can be either the Thymus gland or the Pancreas. Serves 2.

List of Ingredients

1 pair sweetbreads
salt
paprika
flour
4 strips bacon
stock from cooking sweetbreads
Sherry or lemon juice


Recipe

Precook sweetbreads, break into large pieces. Season and roll in flour. Wrap with bacon strips. Place in a baking dish and add enough stock to cover bottom of dish. Cover dish and cook in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) about 10 minutes.
Combine 1/2 cup of stock and 2 tsp flour and add to sweetbreads and cook uncovered until bacon is crisp. Add sherry just before serving.