Organ meats were more popular a hundred years ago than what they are now. I don’t have a clue where to buy many of the glands and organs described in a 1924 cookbook.
1924 Organ Meat Descriptions
Organ meats were more popular a hundred years ago than what they are now. I don’t have a clue where to buy many of the glands and organs described in a 1924 cookbook.
They left out the “Rocky Mountain Oysters, eh?
🙂
I could never get beyond liver. And that, seldom.
I’m basically the same. I didn’t like most of these as a child – and I haven’t tried them in years. Maybe I’d like them better now. Not sure.
I love all of them. Sweetbreads were very popular in the 80s. We have a good butcher nearby who is able to provide these cuts.
You are fortunate to have a good butcher nearby. I don’t even know where I could buy most of these.
I’ll pass.
I’m with you.
I’d rather read about some of those things than eat them.
Made me laugh, Anne. I have difficulty reading about them.
The descriptions made me smile. A few seemed a bit over the top.
I agree. 🙂
Hey! Look another difference between you and the UK! All these go under the collective name of ‘offal’. Only liver, kidney, tongue and tripe are readily available now, and in the case of tongue and tripe, less so. I was brought up on many of them, because they were cheap, and learnt to love tripe in Italy.
I’ve heard the term “offal”, though I don’t think that it is commonly used, at least not in the area where I live. Like you, I can remember when these were very inexpensive. Now many of them are difficult to find, and if I can find them very expensive.
I’ve had all of the above meats! In fact just made liver and onions a couple days ago! We love beef heart and tongue is delicious and easy to prepare. When we were kids and money was tight, my mother decided to buy sweetbreads for the cat (cat food was kind of expensive). She cooked them and my sisters and I thought they smelled so good that we wanted to eat them. They were delicious! My grandfather used to make kidney but it took a long time as he had to soak them for several days – changing the water several times a day to get the urine out of them! My grandmother would dice them up and bake them in a sort of shepherd’s pie with a really rich brown gravy… I’ll have to see if my friends have decided to butcher a cow this year!
Fingers crossed that some of your friends decide to butcher a cow this year. I grew up eating meat from cows we raised, but now mostly eat supermarket meat.
I wish I was brave enough to try all of these ‘delicacies.’ I’m sure we would all be healthier if we did.
I’m with you. I think that most of these are very nutritious, but never eat them.
Love sweetbreads! First we blanch them and then we fry them in a non stick pan. Crunchy, soft on the inside and very tasty. We have to ask our butcher for them because it’s not a standard product where we live.
mmm. . . they sound tasty.