Sweetbread Croquettes

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.