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Vol Au Vent of Lamb Sweetbreads

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Vol Au Vent of Lamb Sweetbreads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the heartbreads in half and slice the throatbreads into neat scallops.

  2. In a stewpan, combine the scallops of sweetbreads, tongue, truffles, and mushrooms.

  3. Make a white sauce using the best white stock, reducing it to the consistency of double cream.

  4. Add cream to the sauce, season with salt and cayenne pepper, and pass it through a tammy.

  5. Prepare the vol au vent cases by working the butter on a pastry slab to remove moisture.

  6. Rub about 1 ounce of butter into a portion of the flour, then mix it into the remaining flour.

  7. Make a well in the flour, add lemon juice, and pour in water to form a compact paste.

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. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Scallop + saucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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 (flour, butter, scallop, truffle, mushroom, sauce, cream):

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Applefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, scallop, truffle, mushroom, sauce, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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