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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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CALF'S BRAINS (en Matelote)
Wash the brains in several waters, remove the skin, and boil them in salt and water, with a little vinegar in it, for ten minutes. Take them out and lay them in cold water until they are wanted. Put a piece of butter the size of a large egg into a saucepan, let it melt, mix smoothly with it a tea-spoonful of flour. Put to this three small onions sliced, then add a table-spoonful of mushroom ketchup, a clove, a bay-leaf, half a pint of stock, and a glass of white wine. When these are mixed thoroughly together, put the brains with them, and let them stew gently until they are done. Time to stew, a quarter of an hour. Sufficient for two or three persons.