[Jake]

40g of butter
600g of cleaned brains
4 tblsp of coarse breadcrumbs
1 sprig of fresh flat leaf parsley
sea salt and white pepper

heat oven to 180/gas mark 4
grease an oven proof dish with the butter
blanch brains then drain and slice
put brains in dish
mix breadcrumbs and chopped parsley and sprinkly over brains
dot with butter ans season with salt and pepper
Bake for 15 minutes then serve from dish

Sounds yummy

courtesy of the silver spoon

[Sadgit]

my tiny brain is now hurting...

[milkman]

who's brains are you using for this dish Jake?

[DD.]

Never mind the recipe - please tell me how to clean brains. Can you wipe them like a hard drive & then reload the bits you select??

I guess not - that's life isn't it??

[Jake]

Never mind the recipe - please tell me how to clean brains. Can you wipe them like a hard drive & then reload the bits you select??

 

I think the butcher will do it for you.

I was thinking of harvesting some members of parliament but then realised  there'd barely be a snack.

I think its for sheeps brains actually.

[shaun]

sheeps brains it will be jake,
 my dad used to have them
he cooked them up in a pan with a blob of butter and added a couple of whisked eggs,salt n pepper and cooked as you would srambled egg and have em on toast
he used to try and force feed me them i only wish i tried them

[Jake]

I saw brains for sale in a market in barcelona. Great city but at the time was really hung over. It was a really crowded market, smelt a lot of fish too. Not a nice place to be at that moment.

But I wish I tried them too. Maybe a new years resolution :roll:

[John]

Don't you get some disease from eating brains... can't remember.. who am I again?

[Jake]

what you mean Spongiform Encephalopathy

[Jake]

Erm......what? :shock:

[Zak the Rabbit]

noooo, thats only eating mooey brains, Bovine Spongiform Encephalophephy (i know im the science student but it dont mean i can spell), which gives us new variant Croetzfeld-Jacob desease :? . These are prion desease, where proteins fail to fold correctly and form 'plaques' or aggregates inside the brain. Scrapie is a similar thing, so you could get that from eating sheep brains :cry: .


that said, ive dealt with sheep a few times, im not sure if you took out and ate its brain that it would particularly affect its lifestyle! :roll:

[John]

If I have it right, prions aren't effected by cooking and even autoclaves?

[Zak the Rabbit]

thats right, they are already denatured. Cooking will denature normal protein (as we see when we cook an egg, thats the protein being denatured that makes the white go firm) , but the prions are already messed up.

[milkman]

Is this degree level science or should I have learnt all this for my biology / chemistry o'levels?

[Zak the Rabbit]

 the denaturing of albumen you should know from A level/O level/GCSE/GCE etc

the prion stuff is im afraid current research, so yes thats really degree level  :cry: but theres so much in the news about it its easy to get the basics.

Normally, when they form the various forces due to the chemistry cause proteins to 'fold' into specific forms. This is what gives them their 'active sites' and hence there functions. Unfortunately some deseases cause the folding to go wrong, and then the forces rather than joining parts of the protein, join them all up in a extended blob called a plaque, a bit like how bacteria cause 'plaque' on teeth, but you cant shift these with a good brush and colgate!