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Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

Chopsmom — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 17:11:04 GMT

Everyone was so helpful in my Tuna Salad Recipe post, I'm hoping you all can help with this.

My mother made sweatbreads once or twice a year, but she had no written recipe for it. It was so delicious.

All I can tell you is that she made it in a skillet and it was cooked with sliced lemons. It did not have a batter and was not browned.

Google didn't have anything close to her recipe.

Wish I had paid attention all those years ago.

Many thanks!

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

Zhills — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 17:56:26 GMT

Pinterest has some interesting ones! Can't recommend one.

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

Sooner — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:18:42 GMT

@Chopsmom What do they taste like?

I wish I could help! I was going to order them at a fine restaurant in New Orleans many years ago until my husband said "DO you have to order every disgusting thing you can find on a menu?"

The poor waiter rushed to my side and helped me select something else, but now my husband really regrets saying that because we have never tasted them! It's a joke between us now.

Don't know what husband was talking about; I'd only had liver, alligator, turtle soup and oysters (which he also came to love!). The turtle soup was at Commander's Palace when Emeril was there--and he asked me how I liked it.

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

On It — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:24:59 GMT

@Sooner I must side with your husband. My only encounter with sweetbreads occurred at the original MGM in Las Vegas. We were dining in the restaurant there. Don Rickles and Shecky Greene were seated next to us. One of them ordered sweetbreads and the stench overpowered our meal. It was awful.

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

Chopsmom — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:34:05 GMT

@Sooner Your husband sounds just like mine!!! When I make shad roe at home, he has to go outside because of the smell, which I think smells heavenly.

I always try interesting entrees at restaurants, especially if it's something I wouldn't make at home, basically because of a lack of cooking skills on my part.

They have a flavor all their own, very mild with a slight texture of liver, but firmer. The lemon really enhanced their flavor.

I did have a sauteed version at a restaurant in Baltimore years ago and was delicious, but I want to try to duplicate mom's.

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

Chopsmom — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:39:13 GMT

@On It I'm sorry your meal was ruined. I want to say that I think they would be unpleasant if they were fried. Perhaps that's why my Mother used so much lemon.

On a side note, how fun to be seated next to Don Rickles. Always a huge fan of his!

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

retiredatlast — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:17:43 GMT

Back in the 50"s and 60"s a popular dish with sweetbreads was served often as an appetizer course at many Jewish events- weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs and family gatherings. The sweetbreads were braised with chicken livers in a gravy with mushrooms and served in a puff pastry shell. I know many of you will say YUCK, but it was actually tasty to me and my mother made it on accasion at home as well. I don't have a recipe for it, so if anyone does- please let me know.

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

Chopsmom — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 22:36:32 GMT

@retiredatlast That sounds delicious and sounds very close to mom's but without the chicken livers. When she served chicken livers, they were just sauteed. Loved them too.

I too would like the recipe you mentioned.

Thanks!

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

cindyNC — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 02:31:22 GMT

My family owned a meat market and did their own slaughtering. We had all kinds of different things served at home.........pickled beef heart, pickled tongue and creamed sweetbreads on toast.

I never ate the heart or tongue but the sweetbreads were delicious. Had no idea what they were at the time and have not had them since.

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

Kachina624 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:32:15 GMT

We had to cook sweetbreads, along with all the other organ meats, when I majored in home ec in college. The liver, tongue and heart were okay but I'll never touch sweetbreads or tripe again, not even in menudo, a treasured local Mexican specialty.

Re: Veal Sweetbread Recipe Help

vabreeze — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:45:55 GMT

@retiredatlast

There is a video of French Chef Jacques Pepin making Braised Sweetbreads in Puff Pastry with Truffle Sauce for PBS. I think you could very easily adapt this recipe to the braised sweetbreads and chicken livers with mushroom gravy dish you enjoyed years ago.

Store-bought puff pastry would be a shortcut to his demonstation of .scratch-made puff pastry; sear the sweetbreads and chicken livers; then braise livers along with sweetbreads in mixture of chicken stock & dry white wine braising liquid; and substitute mushrooms (to add in with finely-diced celery, leeks, carrots and thyme that are sautéd before incorporating the reduced stock/dry wine sauce, i.e. gravy) for the truffles.

I liked how Chef Pepin used the puff pastry to serve the sweetmeats. Hope this helps. It looks like a really delicious dish!