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There is clear soup for dinner, and some lovely sweet-breads.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Take truffles, morels, sweet-breads, diced pallets boiled tender, three anchovies, and some lemon-peel, put these into some brown gravy and stew them; if you do not think it thick enough, dredge in a little flour, and just before you pour it on your beef put in a little white wine and vinegar, and serve it up hot.
English Housewifery 2004
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Tongue, liver, sweet-breads, haunches, and saddle had been neatly removed by people who knew their job.
The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004
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Thus you may fry sweet-breads, udders, and tongues in any of the foresaid ways, with the same sauces and garnish.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Then have lamb stones blancht and slic't, also sweet-breads of veal, and sweet-breads of lamb slit, some great oysters parboil'd, and some cock stones.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Pigeons boiled round the Dish, and thin slices of Bacon, lay in the middle upon your Fricasy a powdred Goose boiled, then lay some sweet-breads of Veal fryed, and balls of Sawsage-meat here and there, with some Scotch Collops of Veal or of Mutton: Garnish your Dish with
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As thus you may also broil or toast the sweet-breads when they are new, and serve them with gravy.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Provide cock-stones and combs, or lamb-stones, and sweet-breads of veal, a little set in hot water and cut to pieces; also two or three ox-pallats blanch't and slic't, a pint of oysters, slic't dates,
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Thus you may do of veal sweet-breads, and lamb-stones.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Being baked to be eaten hot, put it into yolks of hard eggs, sweet-breads, lamb-stones, sparagus, or bottoms of artichocks, chesnuts, grapes, or gooseberries.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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