Sweetbreads: Sweetbread Recipes: Sweetbreads With Bacon Mushroom Shallot And Garlic

So for those of you that have never had the pleasure of eating sweetbreads you may ask what are sweetbreads? Sweetbreads are the pancreas and thymus glands and calf, veal, lamb and pork! Some chefs and people call the thymus the throat sweetbread or in French cooking the thymus is referred to as a “gorge.” Also in French the pancreas is referred to as the “noix.” The “noix” sweetbread is from the stomach or heart and the “gorge” sweetbread comes from the animals throat.