Larded Sweetbreads
are cooked in the same way as for frying—the first part. Keep the sweetbreads whole, trim them neatly, and have twenty stripes of bacon two inches long, and with a larding needle draw the bacon gently through the sweetbreads, reversing the lines. Place in a stew-pan with one ounce of butter, and brown the sweetbreads to a light-brown colour; pour over half-pint of stock or water; simmer slowly for twenty minutes. Take a spoonful of butter and flour, and add to the sweetbreads a few chopped mushrooms; pepper and salt. Strain the sauce over the sweetbreads, garnish with Brussels sprouts in the centre.