Last updated 11:57, Saturday, 04 October 2008

Testicle pizza and battered testicles are among 31 dishes served up in the world’s first testicle cookbook.

The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls was published this week as a multimedia e-Book on YUDU, which allows people to publish, share, buy and sell their own digital documents.

Ljubomir Erovic, the book’s author, is a testicle cook and gourmet from Serbia, where testicles are a traditional delicacy.

He is also the founder and organiser of The World Testicle Cooking Championship, held annually in Serbia since 2004.

His book (www.yudu.com/testicles) contains recipes for testicles from over a dozen different animals, including stallions and ostriches. The tastiest testicles, says Erovic, come from bulls, ostriches or stallions. “Sheep testicles are also delicious”, he says.

“All testicles can be eaten, except human, of course.”

Unsurprisingly, most of the recipes have been devised by Erovic himself – but some have been contributed by others.

The Chinese believe that eating them on a regular basis can boost a man’s libido and cure impotence. “The best for aphrodisiac properties are sheep and stallion testicles”, says Erovic.

“Testicles have been enjoyed for so long by so many peoples in so many places that the only strange thing is that no-one before now has ever compiled a comprehensive testicle cookbook,” he added.