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Sweetbread Cutlets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Sweetbread Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the sweetbreads in water with a little coarse sea salt for 30 minutes.

  2. Once cold, cut the sweetbreads into even slices.

  3. Brush each slice with yolk of egg and dip into seasoned fine bread crumbs.

  4. Fry the slices until they are a light brown.

  5. Arrange the cutlets in a dish, placing them high in the center.

  6. In the pan, make a gravy by thickening with flour and adding sherry or Madeira just before serving.

  7. If desired, trim slices of cold boiled tongue to match the cutlets and place each cutlet on a slice of tongue.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Bread + sherrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together682 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, bread, pepper, flour, sherry):

  1. Figfits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Raisinfits about as well
  4. Plumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread, pepper, flour, sherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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