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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 Garnish
This is made of mushrooms, truffles, brains, beef palates, olives, gherkins and chicken quenelles, as follows: Prepare and cook some mushrooms, large whole truffles and brains, also small rounds of beef palate, chicken quenelles moulded with teaspoons, stoned olives and small balls of gherkins, cut out with a cutter. Put the mushrooms, truffles, palate, quenelles and olives into a sautepan with a little of the liquor from the turtle it is to be served with; let it thicken over the fire, and it is ready for use. The brains and gherkins are arranged on the top of the other ingredients.