throat sweetbread


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Noun 1. throat sweetbread - edible thymus gland of an animal
organs, variety meat - edible viscera of a butchered animal
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They are in fact the thymus (throat sweetbread) and the pancreas (heart or stomach sweetbread), usually of the calf and lamb - though beef and pork are also eaten.
Sweetbreads are offally fine; BRAISED LAMBS' SWEETBREADS WITH WHITE BEANS AND (for 4) MORELS

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