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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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Ox Brains, Fried
Wash carefully in two or three waters, remove all the blood, skin, and fibre, and lay the brains in warm water to blanch. Put them into boiling salt and water, and simmer gently for half an hour. Drain them, make them into balls the size of a small egg, dip them into beaten egg and finely-grated bread-crumbs, and fry them in plenty of hot fat until they are brightly browned all over. Place them on a hot dish, squeeze the juice of half a small lemon over them, and garnish with slices of cut lemon and parsley. Time to fry, ten minutes. Probable cost, 1s. 3d.