sweetbreads
IPA: swˈitbrɛdz
noun
- edible glands of an animal
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Examples of "sweetbreads" in Sentences
- Ris de veau are veal sweetbreads.
- It is served chiefly with poultry and sweetbreads.
- I changed the link from sweetmeats to sweetbreads.
- I've eaten them before (ummn, sweetbreads, that is).
- Most valued are the liver, sweetbreads, kidney, and bone marrow.
- Most valued are the liver, sweetbreads, kidney, and spinal marrow.
- The sweetbreads was my favorite thing, but again rather paltry portion.
- Sweetbreads encompass various veal offal pancreas, thymus and thyroid glands.
- The 100 people in attendance Monday were treated to meat, and lots of it: chorizo, blood sausage, short ribs, beef filets and mollejas, the thymus gland (a k a sweetbreads).
- On a recent Friday afternoon in Animal's empty dining room, Mr. Dotolo peered at a scribbled bubble chart on which he'd written the word "sweetbreads" in the biggest, center bubble.
- Orielles de Christ (pig skin, available at the Vanderbilt in Brooklyn) and, of course, so-called sweetbreads (thymus and pancreas, available everywhere from Babbo to Prune to Little Italy).
- Getting Sweetbreads Ready for Cooking -- The throat glands and the pancreas of calves, which, as has already been learned, are called sweetbreads, can be cooked in various ways for the table.
- According to Keyes, the tradition of using euphemisms for food is pretty widespread: thymus glands are known as sweetbreads, and bull testicles are known as Rocky Mountain oysters and prairie oysters.
- The more delicate meats, such as sweetbreads, fillets, fowls and turkeys sometimes are covered with buttered paper; this is done to prevent the heat from the top of the pan scorching or imparting too much of a roast flavor to the meats which are to be braised.
- We went to a little restaurant, not at all fancy, but with very good food, where Isma was happy since with so many people to order and share different non-vegetarian plates, he was able to eat lots of other things than when the two of us go there alone (in which case he orders the sweetbreads, which is a favorite and something we never cook at home).