FRIED SWEETBREADS a la Maitre d'Hotel (an Entree)

Ingredients

• 3 sweetbreads
• egg and bread crumbs
• 1/4 lb butter
• salt and pepper to taste
• rather more than 1/2 pint of Maître d'hôtel sauce No. 466

Instructions

1. Soak the sweetbreads in warm water for an hour;
2. then boil them for 10 minutes;
3. cut them in slices, egg and bread crumb them, season with pepper and salt, and put them into a frying-pan, with the above proportion of butter.
4. Keep turning them until done, which will be in about 10 minutes;
5. dish them, and pour over them a Maître d'hôtel sauce, made by recipe No. 466.
6. The dish may be garnished with slices of cut lemon.