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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, Fried
Wash the brains, pick them clean, and let them lie in cold water for an hour. Boil them in water with a little vinegar for ten minutes, cool, and cut them into slices. Drain and dip them into a batter made with two table-spoonfuls of baked flour, two eggs, and a quarter of a pint of cream; this batter should be well beaten for fifteen minutes before it is used. Half fill an iron saucepan with frying fat, make this hot, then fry each piece, well dipped in batter, till it is a pale brown colour. Send them to table with a bunch of fried parsley in the centre of the dish, and the slices of brains round it. They should be served very hot. Time, fifteen minutes to fry.