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Sweetbreads with Mushrooms

A savory dish of diced sweetbreads simmered with mushrooms, butter, flour, milk, and seasonings, finished with egg yolks and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sweetbreads with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Parboil the sweetbreads.

  2. Cut the sweetbreads into dice.

Make the sauce

  1. Cook the chopped mushrooms in butter for 5 minutes.

  2. Add flour, salt, and paprika.

  3. Gradually pour in the milk and mushroom liquor.

  4. Stir in the sweetbread dice.

  5. Stir in the lemon juice.

  6. Add the egg yolks.

  7. Add the parsley.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Mushroom + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Provide the main meat, whose tender texture forms the body of the dish.
Butter
Cooks the mushrooms and carries flavour, adding richness to the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the butter and milk into a smooth sauce as it cooks.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the sauce, giving it a creamy body.
Egg yolks
Enrich and thicken the sauce, giving it a smooth, velvety texture.

The step that matters

Add the egg yolks. Egg yolks thicken through gentle heat. If the sauce is too hot when they go in, they can scramble and turn grainy, so add them off the heat or at low heat while stirring.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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