Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Erken 1914: a cold dish of soaked, blanched, and cooled veal sweetbread cut into slices, layered with horseradish butter and salted tongue, arranged on vegetable salad with mayonnaise (or with a mayonnaise-filled tomato half) on a toasted round of white bread.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 220 (falt i det fri)
A cold French-style starter from the meat chapter of "Stor kokebok" (1914). The dish is named after Cardinal Richelieu and shows the era's fondness for French names in Norwegian party food.
Soaking
Place the sweetbread in cold water for 2 hours, changing the water a few times.
Blanching
Rub the sweetbread with a slice of lemon and dip it for a moment in boiling bouillon. Then place it in cold stock and lift it out just as the stock begins to boil. Clean off membranes.
Cooling and slicing
Let the sweetbread become completely cold, preferably lightly pressed. Cut it into neat slices.
Layer together
Spread horseradish butter on each sweetbread slice and cover with a slice of tongue of the same size.
Arranging
Arrange the vegetable salad with mayonnaise (Italian salad) on the platter and place the sweetbread slices on top. Alternatively, fill a tomato half with mayonnaise and place it on each sweetbread slice.
Bread base
Place each slice on a round slice of white bread lightly toasted in melted butter. Serve cold.
Amounts for vegetable salad, mayonnaise, tomato, and white bread are estimated, as the original does not give them. Units are modernized, and "blanching" is explained. Horseradish butter is referred to as a separate base recipe.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

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Note til Modernisert
Mengder for grønnsakssalat, majones, tomat og franskbrød er anslått, da originalen ikke oppgir dem. Enheter er modernisert, og «blancheres» er forklart. Pepperrotsmør henvises til som eget grunnrecept.
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