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Sweetbreads, Browned
Soak, blanch, and stew the sweetbreads in as much good and nicely-flavoured stock as will barely cover them. When they have simmered about half an hour, take them up, and put them into a round saucepan just large enough to hold them with a good slice of fresh butter which is melted and just beginning to brown. Turn the sweetbreads over and over till they are equally and brightly browned in every part. Keep them hot by the side of the stove. Thicken the stock in which they are boiled with brown thickening. Flavour with mushroom ketchup and lemon-juice, and add a table-spoonful of light wine. Place the sweetbreads on a dish, pour the sauce over, and garnish with toasted sippets, brain cakes, forcemeat balls, or any little adjuncts which are suitable, and can be easily procured. Probable cost of sweetbreads, 1s. 6d. to 5s.