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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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Turtle Soup, Mock, Brain Balls For
Wash the brains in two or three waters, and free them from skin and fibre. Throw them into boiling water, and let them boil for ten minutes. Take them up, and put them into cold water for a minute or two. Afterwards drain them, and pound them in a mortar with a tea-spoonful of chopped sage, or a little savory, or lemon thyme, and pepper, salt, and grated nutmeg. Bind the mixture together with the yolk of an egg, make it up into small balls the size of a child's marble, dip these twice into beaten egg and bread-crumbs, and fry in hot fat till they are brightly browned. Drain them, and add them to the soup. Time, two or three minutes to fry the balls. Probable cost, 4d. for this quantity, exclusive of the brains. Sufficient, one brain ball to each guest.