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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat the Dutch oven.

  2. Coat the sweetbreads with the egg yolk.

  3. Sprinkle with bread crumbs, parsley, thyme, sweet marjoram, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  4. Make a roll of force-meat like a sweetbread and wrap it in veal caul.

  5. Cook the sweetbreads in the Dutch oven.

  6. In a separate pot, boil brown gravy with lemon pickle, mushroom ketchup, and the end of a lemon.

  7. Once the sweetbreads are cooked, place them in a dish with the force-meat in the middle.

  8. Remove the lemon from the gravy and pour it over the dish before serving.

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. Thyme + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Marjoram + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, bread, thyme, marjoram, pepper, meat, veal):

  1. Winter savoryfits about as well
  2. Sagefits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Tarragonfits less well

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

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