{{Short description|Lamb offal served as food}} thumb|Lamb's fry thumb|150px|Lamb liver before cooking '''Lamb's fry''' is lamb offal served as food, including the testicles, liver, sweetbreads, heart, kidneys, and sometimes the brain and abdominal fat&mdash;or some combination thereof.<ref>''Oxford English Dictionary'', ''s.v.''</ref><ref>S.E. Nash, ''Cooking Craft'', 3rd ed., 106</ref><ref>M.L. Tyson, ''The Queen of the Kitchen: A Collection of Southern Cooking Receipts'', 1886, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LryDgwxzLnoC&pg=PA136 p. 136]</ref>

In Australia and New Zealand, lamb's fry is specifically the liver; in the United States, "lamb fries" (''q.v.'') are specifically the testicles. In the United Kingdom, it was all offal, though recently testicle has become rare.<ref>Charles Sinclair, ''Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z'', ''s.v.''</ref>

==History== ''Walker's Hibernian Magazine'' mentions "breakfasts of nice stew'd lamb's fry" eaten on the day of Swanhop in 1786.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge|publisher=R. Gibson|year=1786}}</ref> In 1929, a ''Country Life'' cookery supplement described it as an "old Devon breakfast dish".<ref>{{cite book|title=County Recipes of Old England|author=Helen Edden|page=17|publisher=Country life Limited|year=1929}}</ref> Fanny Cradock wrote that it was once popular as a breakfast dish before World War II.<ref>{{cite book|title=Around Britain with Bon Viveur|author=Fanny Cradock|page=162|publisher=J. Lehmann|year=1952}}</ref>

==Preparation== Lamb's fry is typically sliced, breaded, and pan-fried, and served with bacon, onions and a gravy made with the juices. The oldest known published recipe of this type is from 1808.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined|url=https://archive.org/details/artofcookerymade00moll|author=John Mollard|page=[https://archive.org/details/artofcookerymade00moll/page/173 173]|publisher=Longman|year=1808}}</ref>

==Popularity== "Lamb's fry and bacon" was once very popular as pub food and still relatively popular in Australia as pub counter meals and as a breakfast dish.<ref name="Aussie breakfast">{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/xenos-cafe-and-restaurant-20100820-1339w.html |title=Xenos Cafe and Restaurant |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |accessdate=2010-08-25 |publisher=Fairfax Media |date=2010-08-20 | first=Jacqui | last=Taffel}}</ref>

==See also== * List of lamb dishes * {{portal-inline|Food}}

==References== {{reflist}}

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Category:Australian cuisine Category:Lamb and mutton dishes Category:Testicle dishes Category:Liver dishes