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This recipe calls for animal brains or related nervous-system tissue. Cattle brain and spinal tissue can transmit bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the cause of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, which is fatal and has no treatment.
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Brain Cakes
Soak and pick the brains, boil for a quarter of an hour, and blanch them. Pound them to a paste with a tea-spoonful of chopped sage, a quarter of a tea-spoonful of mace and cayenne, salt, pepper, and two well-beaten eggs. Make the paste into balls about the size of a florin; when flattened, dip them into egg and fine bread-crumb, and fry brown. They are appropriate as a garnish for "calf's head a la tortue."