This is the gland which in the calf is known as the sweetbread and is a delicious and valued article of food. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
"sweetbread" -- a gland nearly as large as the hand, lying behind the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
But I have had a good dinner of "sweetbread," and expect a sleep by and by. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
The pancreas, or sweetbread, is much smaller than the liver. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
STRAFFORD THOROUGH, who then rubbed his face with sweetbread. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891] Reference
The recipe for sweetbread croquettes is from Mrs. Henderson's. From Wordnik.com. [Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book] Reference
To-night he has been feasted on quails, salad, and sweetbread. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
Heat the dice of sweetbread in this sauce and fill the cases with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Belgian Cookbook] Reference
Perhaps if you could get me a sweetbread I might manage a few morsels. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
'Your pluck is bleeding fresh, and your sweetbread is in a clean plate.'. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
His young wives continued to feed him buffalo liver and sweetbread stew. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man’s Walk] Reference
Have ready proper sweetbread cases, slip them neatly into them, and serve. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
"Soup, fish, sweetbread and green peas, chicken ...." she gave the paper back. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
Veal sweetbread with asparagus and caper cream based on a Bernard Pacaud classic. From Wordnik.com. [Augieland:] Reference
Whom she meant, she did not say; but she could scarcely have meant the sweetbread. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Times] Reference
Mashed boiled brains or sweetbread, or puree of white or red roasted meat, in soup. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
There was so little undamaged sweetbread in his skull, only one idea could feature. '. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
I remember sweetbread dishes I ate years and years ago as if it were yesterday and lament them. From Wordnik.com. [Karine Bakhoum: Give Us This Day Our Daily Sweetbreads] Reference
Some sweetbread may be added with good effect, but it must be first scalded and the skin removed. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well] Reference
Because of their acidity the leaves make a capital dressing with stewed lamb, veal, or sweetbread. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
He was a man fond of sweetbread and little dinners, and one to whom hot brandy-and-water was too dear. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
"Talk to Tiago D.," she said, cracking a couple of eggs into the frying pan to go along with my sweetbread. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
The stuffing can be made with milk veal stewed alone, or with sweetbread or chicken liver, all chopped fine. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well] Reference
Get some little cases from the pastry-cook of puff paste, which are to be filled with sweetbread cut in dice. From Wordnik.com. [The Belgian Cookbook] Reference
When the white meat of chicken replaces half the sweetbread, they are called Cutlets, or Croquettes, à la Reine. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
Might she suggest a roast fowl and some bread sauce, and perhaps a sweetbread — and just one glass of champagne?. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
This will mix a pint of sweetbread and mushrooms, or rather less of dry meat, such as the breast of chicken, veal, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
Make two rough paper cases, butter each liberally, and very carefully lay each sweetbread in one, crumbed side uppermost. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
Madame Poiret, a little old woman as white and wrinkled as a sweetbread, dressed in a dark-blue silk gown, gave her name as. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
These two glands are joined by a connecting membrane, but this is often broken and each gland sold as a separate sweetbread. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference
Mr and Mrs Lupex had eaten a sweetbread together in much connubial bliss on that day which had seen Cradell returning to Mrs. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
After some discussion on the relative merits of veal-cutlet, sweetbread, and lobster, a decision was pronounced in favour of veal-cutlet. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
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