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Hot Pie of Lambs’ Sweetbreads

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and artichoke work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 447 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Hot Pie of Lambs’ Sweetbreads

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Soak and blanch the lambs’ sweetbreads.

  2. Cut them into scallops and simmer with sweet herbs for 15 minutes.

  3. Prepare a pie crust and mask the bottom and sides with fine force-meat.

  4. Arrange the cold sweetbreads in a crown shape inside the pie.

  5. Cover with seasoning, laurel leaves, and larding bacon.

  6. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 1.5 hours.

  7. Remove excess fat and cover with glazed demi-Spanish sauce mixed with jelly broth and essence of mushrooms.

  8. Garnish with mushrooms and artichoke bottoms.

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. Mushroom + artichoketop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together447 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Lamb + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Lamb + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together469 recipes

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

  4. Laurel + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,255 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Lamb + artichoketop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

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