Editing Sweetbread (section)

== Description ==
Sweetbread is a [[culinary name]] for the [[thymus]] (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or [[pancreas]] (also called stomach, belly or heart sweetbread), typically from [[Calf (animal)|calf]] ({{langx|fr|ris de veau}}) or [[lamb and mutton|lamb]] ({{lang|fr|ris d'agneau}}).<ref name="oed" /><ref name="Leiths">{{cite book |last1=Spaull |first1=Susan |title=Leiths Techniques Bible |last2=Bruce-Gardyne |first2=Lucinda |date=2003 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=0-7475-6046-3 |edition=1st |page=451}}</ref> Sweetbreads have a rich, slightly gamey flavor and a tender, succulent texture. 

The "heart" sweetbreads are more spherical, while the "throat" sweetbreads are more cylindrical.<ref name="culinarylore">{{cite web |author=EricT |title=What Are Sweetbreads? |url=https://culinarylore.com/specialty-foods:what-are-sweetbreads/ |website=culinarylore.com |access-date=25 February 2019 |date=17 May 2012 |archive-date=25 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225162215/https://culinarylore.com/specialty-foods:what-are-sweetbreads/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As the thymus is replaced by fibrous tissue in older animals, only pancreatic sweetbreads come from [[beef]] and [[pork]].<ref name="ockerman">{{cite book |author1=Herbert W. Ockerman |author2=Conly L. Hansen |title=Animal By-Product Processing & Utilization |year=2000 |isbn=1566767776 |pages=65–66, 271 }}</ref> Like other edible non-muscle from animal carcasses, sweetbreads may be categorized as [[offal]], "fancy meat", or "variety meat".{{r|ockerman|p=4,23}} Various other [[gland]]s used as food may also sometimes be called "sweetbreads", including the [[parotid gland]] ("cheek" or "ear" sweetbread), the [[sublingual gland]]s ("tongue" sweetbreads or "throat bread") as well as [[ovary]] and [[Testicles as food|testicle]]s.<ref>{{cite book |author=W. A. Newman Dorland |title=The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary |year=1922 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Di6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1030 |page=1030 |via=[[Google Books]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Medical Age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hg8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA702 |volume=11 |page=702 |date=1893 |publisher=E. G. Swift }}, quoting the ''[[British Medical Journal]]''</ref>