Sweetbread

• “Sweetbread, which is thymus gland of the calf, is a delicate and agreeable article of diet, particularly for invalids.”

  Public School Domestic Science

• “I am also still obsessed with those served at Vong in the 1990's when Jean-Georges Vongerichten served his Roasted Sweetbread Brochettes on actual licorice sticks.”

  The Huffington Post: Karine Bakhoum: Give Us This Day Our Daily Sweetbreads

• “I hastily look it up in the English-French dictionary, where it reads "Calf's Sweetbread.”

  Bouchee a la reine

• “Sweetbread is the name given to all simple forms of cake in Finland; a great deal of it is eaten, and it is particularly good.”

  Through Finland in Carts

• “Sweetbread, a person of exquisite parts, but fiery temper, at that time aged thirty-three, twelve stone weight, head cook and housekeeper to Sir”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828

• “Frittura di Bottoni e di Animelle (Sweetbread and Mushrooms)”

  The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes

• “Sweetbread croquettes are simply made into cork or pear shapes, never large, instead of cutlets.”

  Choice Cookery

• “I leave him alwaies to _Dolly's_ Care, firste providing for him a Sweetbread or some smalle Relish, such as he loves.”

  Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary

• “The letter was, in fact, pretty much what Mr.. Sweetbread alleged: it contained a large and unlimited offer of Mr. Schnackenberger's large and unlimited person; professed an ardour of passion which could brook no delay; and entreated her to grant him an interview for the final arrangement of all preliminaries at the”

  The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

• “Furious with wrath, and moreover anxious to escape before Von Pilsen and his party should see him, and know that this last forgery no less than the others had succeeded in duping him into a punctual observance of the appointment, Mr. Schnackenberger rushed out of the room, seized his horse's bridle -- and was just on the point of mounting, when up came his female tormentor, Mr.. Sweetbread.”

  The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

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