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Veal Sweetbread Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• veal sweetbreads (as needed)
• butter (a little)
• flour (a little)
• calf meat broth (as needed)
• parsley or mace (a little)
• egg yolks (a little)

Instructions

1. Cut the prepared veal sweetbreads into small cubes and sauté in butter and flour until golden.
2. Cook with calf meat broth for a while and stir in finely chopped parsley or crushed mace and egg yolks.
3. This soup is also suitable for the sick; in this case, however, omit the seasoning and simply sweat the flour in a little butter until white.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.