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To make Brain-cakes

Ingredients

• handful of bread-crumbs
• shred lemon-peel
• pepper
• salt
• nutmeg
• sweet-marjorum
• parsley
• yolks of 3 eggs
• brains

Instructions

Take the bread-crumbs, a little shred lemon-peel, pepper, salt, nutmeg, sweet-marjorum, parsley shred fine, and the yolks; take the brains and skin them, boil and chop them small, so mix them all together; take a little butter in your pan when you fry them, and drop them in as you do fritters, and if they run in your pan put in a handful more of bread-crumbs.

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Source

English Housewifry (1764).