2 lb Sweetbreads, soaked,                     -sliced
          -trimmed, blanched, and       
A MARINADE
   1/2 c  Oil                                      -the garlic-press
   1/2 c  Lemon juice                         1 ts Salt
     1 tb Chopped thyme (or 1               1/4 ts Freshly ground pepper
          -teaspoon dried)                         Flour
     1    Bay leaf, crumbled                  6 tb Butter
    10    Basil leaves                        2    Lemons, quartered
     1    Clove garlic, crushed in       
 Place the sliced sweetbreads in the marinade for 2 hours.  Drain
 thoroughly, and dust with flour.  Heat the butter in a very large
 frying pan over fairly high heat and brown the sweetbreads for about
 3 minutes on each side.  Transfer them to a hot serving platter, pour
 the butter in the pan over them and garnish with the lemon quarters.
Serves 6.
 From “Great Italian Cooking-La Grande Cucina Internazionale” by Luigi
 Carnacina, edited by Michael Sonino, Agradale Press, New York
                
                 Yields       
                6 servings