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Omelet with Sweetbreads

A historical recipe from Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by S. T. Rorer.

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A historical recipe

Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by S. T. Rorer. Project Gutenberg eBook #6429.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a half can of chopped mushrooms

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. This is a very good way to make sweetbreads do double duty.
  2. Boil a pair of sweetbreads until they are tender.
  3. Remove the membrane, cut them into slices;
  4. make a cream sauce.
  5. Add the sweetbreads, and, if you like, a half can of chopped mushrooms.
  6. Make a six-egg omelet, arrange the slices of sweetbread around the omelet and pour over the cream sauce.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by S. T. Rorer. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #6429 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6429). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.