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Home Cookery – a recipe for an invalid

May 10, 2015 by Susan Roberts Leave a Comment

A booklet found in a secondhand bookshop in Camborne with recipes ‘for the invalid’. Home Cooking, July 1918.’

‘There are few homes today in Great Britain where there’s not an invalid, or someone whose appetite must be tempted… Home nurses will find these recipes quite useful; none make extavagant demands on coupons.’

I fear that this recipe for Brain Cakes might not be all that tempting today:

Brain cakes

Ingredients

Brains from half a calf’s head

1 teaspoonful of chopped sage

I yolk of egg

Seasoning

A pinch of mace

A little milk

A few breadcrumbs

 

Boil the brains for five minutes, then put them into cold water. Drain and pound them well with a little salt, pepper, chopped sage and mace, and the well beaten yolk of egg.

Form them into little flat cakes, brush over with milk, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and bake in moderate oven till brown.

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