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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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Calf's Head, To Carve
This is not altogether the most easy-looking dish to cut when it is put before a carver for the first time; there is not much real difficulty in the operation, however, when the head. has been attentively examined, and, after the manner of a phrenologist, you get to know its bumps, good and bad. In the first place, inserting the knife quite down to the bone, cut slices in the direction of the line A to B; with each of these should be helped a piece of what is called the throat sweetbread, cut in the direction of from C to D. The eye, and the flesh round, are favourite morsels with many, and should be given to those at the table who are known to be the greatest connoisseurs.
The jawbone being removed, there will then CALF'S LIVER. be found some nice lean; and the palate, which is reckoned by some a tit-bit, lies under the head. On a separate dish there B C CALF'S HEAD.
A is always served the tongue and brains, and each guest should be asked to take some of these.