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Fried Sweetbreads

Fried sweetbreads are sliced sweetbreads coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried, and garnished with parsley, olives, pickles, and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Fried Sweetbreads

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the parboiled sweetbreads into slices.

  2. Dip the slices in egg.

  3. Coat the slices with breadcrumbs.

  4. Dip the slices in egg again.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the slices in deep fat for one minute.

  2. Season the slices with salt and pepper.

  3. Sauté the slices in hot butter.

  4. Garnish the slices with parsley, olives, pickles, and lemon slices.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

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

  5. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Provide the tender, delicate meat that is the main component of the dish.
Egg
Binds the breadcrumbs to the slices so the coating holds during frying.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.
Butter
Adds richness and browning when the slices are sautéed.

The step that matters

Fry the slices in deep fat for one minute. Breaded coatings need hot oil to set and crisp quickly; if the fat is not hot enough, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy before the inside is heated through.

“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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