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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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Sheep's Brains and Tongue
Take the brains out of the head without breaking them, soak them in salted water for an hour, skin them, and pick away the fibres. Throw the brains into boiling water, also the tongue, already boiled with the head. Let the brains boil quickly for a quarter of an hour; take them out, mince them, and beat them up with three table-spoonfuls of the liquor in which they were boiled, three table-spoonfuls of cream, a table-spoonful of blanched and chopped parsley, and a little pepper and salt. Boil the brains with half a tea-spoonful of white thickening; or, failing this, with a small piece of butter rolled in flour. Skin the tongue, put it in the centre of a small dish, pour the brains round it, and serve very hot. Time, altogether, thirty to forty minutes. Probable cost, sheep's heads, 10d. to 1s. each. Sufficient for one or two persons.