Sweetbread Croquettes
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Sweetbread Croquettes

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cup butter, (1 1/4 pounds)
  • 5 cup flour, (1 1/4 pounds)
  • 1 1/4 quart hot chicken broth, or water
  • 1 1/4 quart evaporated milk
  • 20 eggs
  • salt
  • paprika
  • 3 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 10 pairs sweetbreads
  • enough cooked chicken to make 3 3/4 quarts with the sweetbreads
  • fine bread crumbs
  • evaporated milk

Directions

  1. Prepare a thick sauce of the butter, flour, broth or water and milk.
  2. Add beaten eggs, salt and paprika, then the lemon juice.
  3. Have the sweetbreads prepared in the following way: soak in cold water for 1 hour, renewing water several times.
  4. Simmer about 30 minutes in salted water to which 1/2 cup vinegar has been added.
  5. Rinse in cold water.
  6. Remove all membrane.
  7. Chop fine.
  8. Add chicken and combine with the sauce.
  9. Cool mixture and shape into croquettes.
  10. Roll in fine crumbs, then in undiluted evaporated milk and again in crumbs.
  11. Fry in deep fat (390° f) hot enough to turn a 1-inch cube of soft bread a golden brown in 40 seconds.
  12. Drain on unglazed paper to absorb excess fat.
  13. Serve on hot platter garnished with watercress.

Other Information

Author: Evaporated Milk Association

Source: Quantity Recipes for Quality Foods (1939-01-01)

Category: Meat, Main Dish

Ingredients: butter, flour, chicken broth, evaporated milk, egg, salt, paprika, lemon juice, sweetbread, bread crumb

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, egg beater, pot

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