sweetbread
IPA: swˈitbrɛd
noun
- The pancreas or thymus gland of an animal, especially a lamb or calf, as food.
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Examples of "sweetbread" in Sentences
- Ris de veau are veal sweetbreads.
- It is served chiefly with poultry and sweetbreads.
- I changed the link from sweetmeats to sweetbreads.
- Most valued are the liver, sweetbreads, kidney, and bone marrow.
- Most valued are the liver, sweetbreads, kidney, and spinal marrow.
- But I have had a good dinner of "sweetbread," and expect a sleep by and by.
- Sweetbreads encompass various veal offal pancreas, thymus and thyroid glands.
- "sweetbread" -- a gland nearly as large as the hand, lying behind the stomach.
- He started with ganzuki, the steamed sweetbread he first helped make as a child.
- I remember sweetbread dishes I ate years and years ago as if it were yesterday and lament them.
- This is the gland which in the calf is known as the sweetbread and is a delicious and valued article of food.
- The sweetbread is the pancreas; now a deficient pancreatic action is supposed to play a great part in consumption and other wasting diseases.
- Gone are the days when the word "sweetbread" incited a wrinkling of the nose, or eating a terrine made from a slow-simmered hog's head was the feat of a culinary daredevil.
- Knowing what an office is does not shed light on what an officer does, even though "officer" has the word "office" in it, just as sweetbread is not sweet and it's not bread.
- Here you'll find Arizona honey duck confit with an extra wickedly delicious tequila soufflé and don't miss out on the blue corn crusted sweetbread which is something else indeed.
- Food blogger C.rol Blymire wrote on April 1 a lengthy entry detailing her new, 12-week mobile food venture that was set to begin April 3 in Washington, D.C. Her food truck would continue on to various U.S. cities, where she was to have served curiously eccentric menu items such as sweetbread and lobster popsicle, falafel liquid shot and cupcake straw.