new organs
Well, I’ve finally opened up that package of frozen beef sweetbreads. Grass-fed
sweetbreads to be exact. Sweetbreads are the thymus and pancreas glands (other
glands are gonads, organs that have glandular functions are liver and I believe
the kideys). Then there’s the pineal and pituitary, but those are in that big
fatty mass known as the brain.
I am finally getting around to eating my sweetbreads because I now have a book
which explains how to prepare them for cooking and eating, kidneys, brains,
tripe, sweetbreads, even liver, these organs should be prepared properly to be
eaten safely. Not like a slab of muscle. You gotta work for the extra nutrients.
So, after soaking in acidulated water for over two hours I boiled them in
salinated water, picked and cleaned them, now I’ve left them to be pressed on a
baking pan with a heavy weight on top in the bottom of the refrigerator
overnight. Tomorrow morning I hope I have the courage… Mmmm. Pancreas time!
Instead of muffins, meat muffins. Instead of pancakes, pancreas! Yay! What’s
funny are those digestive enzyme pills, the kind with beef glandulars, I am
eating mine whole. I do believe my own pancreas will be strengthened from
another animal’s pancreas. Moo!
I think when I begin to read through Sally Fallon’s and Mary Enig’s (Ph. D.)
“Nourishing Traditions” I will be posting some of the more interesting excerpts
for everyone’s benefits. You can find them at westonaprice.org, I really like
them. There are plenty of quotes from Weston A. Price in their book! They must
be very close to that organization.