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Roast Placenta

1-3lb fresh placenta (must be no more than 3 days old)
1 onion
1 green or red pepper (green will add colour)
1 cup tomato sauce
1 sleeve saltine crackers
1 tspn bay leaves
1 tspn black pepper
1 tspn white pepper
1 clove garlic (roasted and minced)

(Preheat oven to 350 degrees)

Chop the onion and the pepper & crush the saltines into crumbs.

Combine the placenta, onion, pepper, saltines, bay leaves, white and black pepper, garlic and tomato sauce.

Place in a loaf pan, cover then bake for one and a half hours, occasionally pouring off excess liquid.

Serve and enjoy!

― chris (chris), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

shouldn't there be a warning on this post?

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh CABBAGE I've just bloody eaten and now I feel frankly nauseous...

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

what's the veggie/vegan take on this recipe? are they allowed it?

― chris (chris), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

urgh! is this a hugh fearnly whatshissocks recipe? i would only even CONSIDER eating this if it was my own placenta. and then probably not.

― katie (katie), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

no, this is from the food forum on the Lonely planet message board. There's a whole thread of Placenta fun on there, but I haven't the time to post it up, maybe tomorrow.

― chris (chris), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Katie, your own as in the one you floated in as a wee baby or as in one that might one day pop out of you if you are ever a mummy?

I would not eat either. Ick.

― Emma, Monday, 23 September 2002 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

(heh emma my OWN placenta what nourished me as a wee foetus wd be way too old, the recipe specifies 3 days old at the most!)

― katie (katie), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

what's the veggie/vegan take on this recipe? are they allowed it?

Actually, yes. It's considered the one kind of meat that you don't have to harm an animal to get. Personally, I think eating any kind of human flesh is dangerous, even cooked. You can't cook out a prion.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

the thing is, it isn't even vegan/veggie principles which would prevent me from eating it (as Christine said, no animals were harmed during the making of this placenta!) it's just that it's so YUK! (also prions aside my digestive system wd probably go into spasm if i put meat in it now anyhow - it's done without it for 10 years!)

― katie (katie), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Num, num - am I the only person on this board disappointed that I hav enever had this treat? Quite probably.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Pete, only you would think of placenta minestrone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that Ned has surpassed me in the Very Bad Mang stakes with that comment. Urgh.

Imagine being the OB/GYN who has to hear, "Could you catch the placenta in this Tupperware bowl for me? We're having a dinner party on Thursday." URGH.

(Also, "green will add color": nummy green placenta stew? URGH.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha, I rule.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

it is rich in iron

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Place in a loaf pan, cover then bake for one and a half hours, occasionally pouring off excess liquid.

"excess liquid" = PLACENTA JUICE. For fuck's sake, I'm surprised there isn't an associated "placenta shake" recipe.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

You'll never look at smoothies the same way again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

haha dan

http://www.babyzone.com/features/stories/default.asp?StoryID=924

sadly it doesn't give the actual recipe

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned: More like a "chunky" than a "smoothie".

Mark: No banana?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

has anyone ever seen Ned and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in the same room?

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you scared? I know I am...

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

You are all scum of the earth. This might be a sign of approval.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sorry, I'm back on the original recipe: THREE POUNDS????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Perfect background music for this recipe: "Lightning Crashes" a.k.a. (the "Placenta Jam") by Live

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 23 September 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

ARGH. To both of you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't Hugh-Fearnley whatshisface get ticked off by the ITC for suggesting it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 September 2002 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

suggesting it = devoting a progamme to cooking it and having a buncha (v.weird-looking) ppl eat it and say num num

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

As if this thread wasn't disgusting enough, someone had to bring up Live. grebt.

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

more recipes are linked on this thread here:
http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/thorn/repliesflat.pl?Cat=&Topic=771513&view=expanded&sb=7

and some less than savoury responses too!

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Placenta: sweet or savoury?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't remember if I've asked this before but do vegans breastfeed their children? Lady vegans, that it. Not man vegans with bitch tits.

― aLIX, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I seem to remember this being recommended for the mother on some TV show a few years ago, mostly based on info that post-natal depression is caused by loss of some substances or other that can easily be replenished by eating the placenta. That doesn't strike me as a guarantee of tastiness.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

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