The Cook's Decameron

A novel with two hundred Italian recipes inside it: ten friends dine together for ten days, argue about food and cooks and country, and each day's talk ends in the day's menu.

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's

10 pages in this part of The Cook's Decameron.

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's

No. 95. Timballo alla Romana Ingredients : Cold fowl, game, or sweetbread, butter, lard, flour, Parmesan, truffles, macaroni, onions, cream.

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's: Ingredients

No. 96. Timballo alla Lombarda Ingredients: Macaroni, fowl or game, eggs, stock, Veluté sauce (No. 2), tongue, butter, truffles.

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's: Serve

Serve with Italian sauce (No. 6).

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's: Sucking

No. 101. Porcelletto alla Corradino (Sucking Pig) Ingredients: Sucking pig, ham, eggs, Parmesan, truffles, mushrooms, garlic, bay leaves…

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's: Testa

No. 105. Testa di Vitello alla Sorrentina (Calf's Head) Ingredients: Calf's head, veal, sweetbread, truffles, mushrooms, pistacchio nuts…

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's: Blanch

Blanch and bone two or more calves' or pigs' feet and put them into a stewpan with butter, leeks, or onions, chopped parsley, salt, pepper…

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's: Animelle

No. 112. Animelle alla Parmegiana (Sweetbread) (Sweet- Ingredients:

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's: Brains

No. 117. Cervello in Filiserbe (Calf's Brains) Ingredients: Calf's brains, stock, butter, parsley, lemon.

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's: Villeroy

No. 122. Marinata di Cervello alla Villeroy (Calf's Brains) Ingredients: Calf's brains, stock, Béchamel sauce, eggs, butter, lemon…

Tongue, Sweetbread, Calf's: Fowls

No. 127. Minuta di Fegatini (Ragout of Fowls' Livers) or Ingredients: Fowls' turkeys' livers, flour, butter, parsley, onions, salt, pepper…

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