black butter brains, anyone?
just bought a recipe box filled with cards from what seems to be a swedish immigrant (some cards in swedish and english is clearly a second language), with dates between 1957 and 1982. having so much fun picking through these, been a while since i got my hands on a filled box! and this one seemed like fun to share 🙂
by invasaato
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Brains Au Beurre Noir
Beef Calfs brains may be used in the recipe. Cover brains with cold water and let stand
One hour. Free from skin and membrane and drop them into boiling water slighly salted
Simmer for 20 min. Drain and immediately cover brains with cold water and let stand until thoroughly cool. Dry with a towel and dip slightly in flour. Saute in butter until nicely browned than remove to hot platter. Put two tbs, of butter in a hot frying pan and just as it turns brown remove from heat adding two tbs vinigar shaking pan to mix. Pour hot vinigar butter over brains and serve at once.
Pretty standard for brown butter but white wine ,lemon juice and herbs would be better for me. I’m not a fan of black butter but it does have applications.
Are they all typed? I’m curious about the Swedish recipies.
My grandma served calf brains with scrambled eggs to my aunt’s then boyfriend, when he came to meet the family.
Even though he threw up, he still married my aunt. 😊
you could have spoiled us with tasty swedish recipes but instead you gave us .. this.. i go back to the beaver tails. ty.
Wouldn’t this have been prime time for beef consumption that caused BSE/CJD to develop in the late 90s?
OP, I’d love to see some of the baking recipes from this box. It sounds like a real find!
My mom would sometimes treat herself to brains when we were kids. No idea how she fixed them because we would mostly scream and run away, lol. It was very stinky stuff as I recall. But this was back before we knew much about “mad cow disease” and other prion diseases, which are truly terrifying. I’m all for trying vintage recipes — but not brains. That’s a big nope.
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I’ll eat most things, idk if I could do brains though