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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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Mock Turtle Soup
Take a calf's head, a knuckle of veal, a hock of ham, six potatoes sliced thin, hock of ham, six potatoes sliced thin, three turnips, parsley and sweet marjoram chopped fine, and pepper. Forcemeat balls of veal and beef, half a pint of wine, one dozen egg balls, juice of a lemon.
The calf's head must have had the brains removed, and must have been boiled previously till the meat slips off the bone. The broth must be saved, so as to use in the soup. Cut the head in small pieces after boiling. The veal and ham also must have been boiled and cut up, and all simmered for a couple of hours in the broth made by the calf's head. Now put all together. The forcemeat balls and egg balls should be added, and all boiled about ten minutes.