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Sweet-breads a LA Roumage

Parboiled sweet-breads simmered in a gravy of broth, mushroom ketchup, port, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Landmarks Club · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 26 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Sweet-breads a LA Roumage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Have ready four medium-sized parboiled sweet-breads, firm and cold.

  2. Fry the sweet-breads in a tablespoonful of butter.

Make the gravy

  1. Add minced onion, four cloves, a bit of mace, a trifle of bay leaves, and four bruised pepper-corns; cook until the onion is very brown.

  2. Add a pint of broth, boil until reduced by half, and strain if the bits of onion and seasonings are objectionable.

  3. Add half a can of mushrooms, cut into slices, and four sliced truffles to the gravy.

  4. Thicken with half a teaspoonful of flour, color with kitchen bouquet, add a tablespoonful of mushroom ketchup and a gill of port.

Finish

  1. Lay the sweet-breads in the gravy and simmer a few minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

692Calories
23 gProtein
19 gFat
107 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Trufflenot in our table0
Pancakenot in our table0
Macenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Landmarks Club. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,663 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet-breads
Main protein; gently simmering firms and sets the delicate texture.
Truffles
Adds a deep, earthy aroma that gives the gravy its distinctive flavor.
Flour
Thickens the broth into a smooth gravy by swelling with heat.
Port
Adds sweetness and depth to the gravy as it reduces.
Mushroom ketchup
Adds concentrated savoury, umami flavor to the gravy.

The step that matters

Cook the onion until very brown. Browning the onion builds deep, roasted flavor in the gravy. Pale onion gives a flat, raw-tasting base, so it should be cooked until deeply coloured before the broth is added.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, mushroom, ketchup, bread, pepper, corn):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

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

“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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