[Sca-cooks] was mad cow... now brains

[Elaine Koogler]

There should be something in the Florilegium about it as I know we have 
discussed this several times in the past.

Kiri

Ana Valdés wrote:

> Please, do anyone have recipes or stories about that kind of food? I 
> am now completing my longterm project about the cookbook I am writing, 
> about "cruel food". And I need recipes and tales about lambtesticles 
> and brains and all people in different cultural times has eaten.
> My idea with the book is punctualize its not any "forbidden or 
> disgusting food", everything is eadible if you need or fancy doing that.
> Have now  an enormous bibliography about these kind of alimentary taboos.
> Ana
>
> Pixel, Goddess and Queen wrote:
>
>> My grandfather liked scrambled eggs and calves's brains. I don't know
>> about pork brains. And we always made dumplings out of poultry 
>> livers, but
>> beef livers got fried with onions. We loved liver dumplings (which 
>> then go
>> into soup) but we hated the liver and onions. We had to eat it, but we
>> were allowed as much ketchup as we wanted. :-)
>>
>> Margaret
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Mmmm, scrambled brains and eggs.  It's been a few decades, but my
>>> grandmother would do that for breakfast from time to time.  Back 
>>> then she
>>> could get pig brains at certain groceries in town.
>>>
>>> Very tasty.
>>>
>>> Mairi Ceilidh
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Yup...when my grandparents butchered their animals in the late 
>>>> fall, my
>>>> father would bring home a "mess" (yes, that's what they were 
>>>> called) of
>>>> brains, which my mother, saint that she was, would cook them with eggs
>>>> for him.  However, my memory tells me that it was pork brains rather
>>>> than beef.
>>>>
>>>> Kiri
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
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