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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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Lamb's Head, to Prepare Brains For
Wash and clean the brains thoroughly, let them lie in cold water for half an hour, then boil them in vinegar and water for six or eight minutes. After this they may be either minced with the fry, or cut into thin slices and placed between the halves of the head, or chopped small and mixed smoothly with a dessert-spoonful of flour, half a tea-spoonful of salt, a quarter of a tea-spoonful of pepper, a tea-spoonful of finely-minced parsley, and about a square inch of thin lemon-rind, finely grated. Work all thoroughly together with a well-beaten egg, have ready a pan of boiling fat, drop the mixture into it from a spoon in small round cakes, and fry them to a bright brown colour. Drain the fat thoroughly from them before serving. Time, three or four minutes to fry the cakes. Probable cost of head, 8d. to 10d.