What are sweet breads?
Joyce Farmer
Patricia Chaires
Joyce Farmer wrote in message <3924-38...@storefull-237.iap.bryant.webtv.net>...I have seen cooking shows where they cook Sweet breads. What part of
the animal does this come from?
Thanks.
Jack Sloan
Jack
Stran79505
chooses. They are not ":mountain oysters".
They have a delicate flavor, if you can forget what they are (*^_^*)
Rosalie Spirek
remember if it is the the thyroid or what I will have to call and uncle
he farmed for years. He will remember. Ugh sound good but we never ate
them.
Rosalie Spirek
will , remember. I know our family never ate them.
nip...@my-deja.com
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Before you buy.
Freeston
Stran79505 wrote:
Hi, I thought sweetbread was the thyroid glands?
Regards Stefanie
Ian Hoare
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 18:11:07 -0500, Jack Sloan <jqs...@hal-pc.org>
wrote:
>last I heard sweetbread was pancreas...unless they've changed something.
This is something that confuses me. In France, sweetbreads are eaten
from both calves and lambs under the names "ris de veau" and "ris
d'agneau". OK. So why don't they come from adult animals? Surely a full
grown cow would have a larger pancreas than a calf.
Then I heard that it came from the Thymus, a gland which is active until
puberty at which point it atrophies and disappears.
All the Best
--Ian Hoare--
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PENMART10
(Stran79505) writes:
>Sweetbreads are either the pancreas or the thalmus gland. Depends on who
>chooses.
Of course you'd all be wrong.
(presented without apology to the research disadvantaged, ie. ignoranuses)
"Prized by gourmets throughout the world, sweetbreads are the *thymus* glands
of veal, young beef, lamb and pork. There are two glands — an elongated lobe
in the throat and a larger, rounder gland near the heart. These glands are
connected by a tube, which is often removed before sweetbreads are marketed.
The heart sweetbread is considered the more delectable (and is therefore more
expensive) of the two because of its delicate flavor and firmer, creamy-smooth
texture. Sweetbreads from milk-fed veal or young calves are considered the
best. Those from young lamb are quite good, but beef sweetbreads are tougher
and pork sweetbreads (unless from a piglet) have a rather strong flavor. Veal,
young calf and beef sweetbreads are available year-round in specialty meat
markets, whereas those from lamb and pork must usually be special-ordered.
Choose sweetbreads that are white (they become redder as the animal ages),
plump and firm. They're very perishable and should be prepared within 24 hours
of purchase. Before being cooked, sweetbreads must be soaked in several changes
of ACIDULATED WATER and their outer membrane removed. Some recipes call for the
glands to be blanched to firm them, and refrigerated until ready for use.
Sweetbreads can be prepared in a variety of ways including poaching, sautéing
and braising. They are also sometimes used in PÂTÉS and SOUFFLÉS."
[Epicurious]
Sheldon
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On a recent Night Court rerun, Judge Harry Stone had a wonderful line:
"I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out."
Mr. Bill
>last I heard sweetbread was pancreas...unless they've changed something.
Jack...it is the thymus gland.
Visualize Financial Peace!
Jack Sloan
the thymus...OK, maybe I was wrong (or maybe they DID change it).
HELEN PEAGRAM
Joyce Farmer wrote in message <3924-38...@storefull-237.iap.bryant.webtv.net>...I have seen cooking shows where they cook Sweet breads. What part of
WardNA
Melba's Jammin'
rosa...@webtv.net (Rosalie Spirek) wrote:
Thymus, I believe; not thyroid.
-Barb
"Always in a jam. Never in a stew. Sometimes in a pickle."
Jill McQuown
<19991023193424...@ng-cq1.aol.com>...
>Sweetbreads are either the pancreas or the thalmus gland. Depends on who
They have a delicate flavor, if you can forget what they are (*^_^*)
>
mothers' pantry. He asked her if she was going to make a pie... she had to
point to him that they are not "sweets". I remember laughing and saying,
"Maybe you'd like steak & kidney pie next week, too?" He had no clue, and
is thankfully long gone!
Jill
Stan Busby
quite tasty.
PENMART10
>sweetbreads are pancreas parts. They can be quite tasty.
>
Nope, I believe you're thinking of/with genitalia parts.
Michael Edelman
PENMART10 wrote:
>
> Nope, I believe you're thinking of/with genitalia parts.
If everyone who finds the pathetic attempts at single entendre of this
infantile ass forwards them to ab...@aol.com, maybe he'll learn some
adult manners.
Elizabeth Falkner
Repost from December 1997:
Granny trots down to her local Food Lion to see if they carry
sweetbreads.
Meat Manager says no...BUT he can order them for Monday.
Granny orders two pounds and says "make sure they are FRESH!"
Granny trots back on Monday.
MM says, "Here they are and they are FRESH!" Meat Manager smiles and
hands
Granny a box that looks like it has a BIG pizza in it. On the box it is
marked $4.80. Sweetbreads are NOT $2.40 a pound...
This looks odd, so Granny opens box...which contains six lovely glazed
Portuguese Pao Dolce. Yep. SWEET BREADS.
MM asks why Granny is laughing uncontrollably. Granny explains to MM
what sweetbreads are. MM has never heard of sweetbreads. MM had
wondered why Granny hadn't ordered this through the Bakery Manager.
Granny then told him that sweetbreads can also be the gonads of Meat
Managers who are poorly trained. Departee repartee is always best.
Granny thought about mentioning it to the Store Manager, but SM has the
IQ of a Portuguese Pao Dolce.
The Old Grey Mare.............Granny Elizabeth
pud
>
> Sweetbreads are either the pancreas or the thalmus gland. Depends on who
> chooses. They are not ":mountain oysters".
> They have a delicate flavor, if you can forget what they are (*^_^*)
Sweetbreads are the Thymus gland of a young calf, a veal. There are
thymus glads (sweetbreads) from young pigs or lambs as well, but they
have a much stronger flavor. it's not the pancreas...it's the thymus
and the best are from veal, if from older animals it's very very strong
and not that tasty... just in my humble opinion :-).
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pud
Um Michel, you snipped stuff...
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Stan Busby <sbu...@jps.net> writes:
>sweetbreads are pancreas parts. They can be quite tasty.
>
Nope, I believe you're thinking of/with genitalia parts.
Sheldon
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On a recent Night Court rerun, Judge Harry Stone had a wonderful line:
"I try to keep an open mind, but not so
--------------------------------------
While this is normal of sheldon, the sweetbreads are NOT the pancreas,
and the pancreas isn't part of the genitalia. Sheldon posted very
informative info on sweetbreads as being the thymus gland of a veal...I
don't know if you saw the post, but his information was right on...
Sorry, but it was correct. His response to your post...I can't
say...And will duck and run over that one :-).
pud
thank goodness, someone who knows what it is besides Penmart....
pud
Granny, sweetbreads are NOT gonads!!! Sigh and LOL.
gives granny e-a big hug, mountian oysters are the gonads, sweetbreads
are the thymus, the thymus is in the chest, not on the other end... :-).
Victor Sack
> Sweetbreads are the Thymus gland of a young calf, a veal. There are
> thymus glads (sweetbreads) from young pigs or lambs as well, but they
> have a much stronger flavor. it's not the pancreas...it's the thymus
> and the best are from veal, if from older animals it's very very strong
> and not that tasty... just in my humble opinion :-).
Not every authority will agree. Sweetbreads are sometimes defined as
thymus *or* pancreas glands. Here's what the OED says...
<quote>
Sweetbread:
The pancreas or the thymus gland, of an animal, esp. as used for food
(distinguished respectively as _heart_, _stomach_, or _belly_ sweetbread
and _throat_, _gullet_, or _neck_ sweetbread): esteemed a delicacy.
</quote>
And here's what another authority, Waverley Root, says in his 'Food'...
<quote>
Some time ago I received a telephone call from two friends on the staff
of the International Herald Tribune who were locked in an argument which
was apparently becoming acerbic. One of them was maintaining heatedly
that sweetbreads come from the pancreas, the other, with equal fervor,
that they come from the thymus. I was able to stave off the rupture of
a beautiful friendship by telling them that they were both right.
This was perhaps less true in France than it would have been in
America, for while it would be rash to say of any edible that it is not
eaten in France, I have never personally encountered pancreatic
sweetbreads ("stomach sweetbreads" for butchers) in that country, but
only thymus sweetbreads ("neck sweetbreads"). The latter comes in two
sections, which has deceived some American writers into identifying one
of them with the thymus and the other with the pancreas, but this is an
error.
[huge omission of most interesting, but no longer relevant, further
info]
</quote>
Put it in the FAQ. ;-)
Victor
CFancy
size and eventually disappears.
ML
--
In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.
-Curnonsky
pud <ma...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:3817C7...@earthlink.net...
> Stran79505 wrote:
> >
> > Sweetbreads are either the pancreas or the thalmus gland. Depends on
who
> > chooses. They are not ":mountain oysters".
> > They have a delicate flavor, if you can forget what they are (*^_^*)
>
>
> Sweetbreads are the Thymus gland of a young calf, a veal. There are
> thymus glads (sweetbreads) from young pigs or lambs as well, but they
> have a much stronger flavor. it's not the pancreas...it's the thymus
> and the best are from veal, if from older animals it's very very strong
> and not that tasty... just in my humble opinion :-).
>
Elizabeth Falkner
I never said they were; I was obviously telling a truly stupid meat
manager what I thought of him.
Elizabeth
pud wrote:
>
> Elizabeth Falkner wrote:
> >
> > Repost from December 1997:
> >
> > Granny trots down to her local Food Lion to see if they carry
> > sweetbreads.
> >
> > Meat Manager says no...BUT he can order them for Monday.
> >
> > Granny orders two pounds and says "make sure they are FRESH!"
> >
> > Granny trots back on Monday.
> >
> > MM says, "Here they are and they are FRESH!" Meat Manager smiles and
> > hands
> > Granny a box that looks like it has a BIG pizza in it. On the box it is
> > marked $4.80. Sweetbreads are NOT $2.40 a pound...
> >
> > This looks odd, so Granny opens box...which contains six lovely glazed
> > Portuguese Pao Dolce. Yep. SWEET BREADS.
> >
> > MM asks why Granny is laughing uncontrollably. Granny explains to MM
> > what sweetbreads are. MM has never heard of sweetbreads. MM had
> > wondered why Granny hadn't ordered this through the Bakery Manager.
> >
> > Granny then told him that sweetbreads can also be the gonads of Meat
> > Managers who are poorly trained. Departee repartee is always best.
> >
> > Granny thought about mentioning it to the Store Manager, but SM has the
> > IQ of a Portuguese Pao Dolce.
> >
> > The Old Grey Mare.............Granny Elizabeth
>
> Granny, sweetbreads are NOT gonads!!! Sigh and LOL.
>
> gives granny e-a big hug, mountian oysters are the gonads, sweetbreads
> are the thymus, the thymus is in the chest, not on the other end... :-).
Jeff Benjamin
This sweetbread here in front of me
Is not what it purports to be
Says Webster in one paragraph
It is the pancreas of a calf
Since it is neither sweet nor bread
I think I'll have a bun instead
(I probably got it wrong and I think it's missing a couplet. Perhaps
someone else has the entire rhyme :-)
--
Jeff Benjamin benji(at)fc.hp.com
Hewlett Packard Co. Fort Collins, Colorado
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"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire
pud
truly an Evil woman to your meat monger LOL...thanks for the correction
:-).
pud
would
not serve the pancreas, but would use the thymus... the pancreas is
quite different than the liver or the heart or other stomach organs...so
I'll stick with Waverleys definition...thanks for posting it.
hugs...(and again thanks Victor for handling the FAQ these days until I
figure it out...give victor a big applause everyone!!!)
Victor Sack wrote:
>
> pud <ma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Sweetbreads are the Thymus gland of a young calf, a veal. There are
> > thymus glads (sweetbreads) from young pigs or lambs as well, but they
> > have a much stronger flavor. it's not the pancreas...it's the thymus
> > and the best are from veal, if from older animals it's very very strong
> > and not that tasty... just in my humble opinion :-).
>
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