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Sweet Breads Creamed

A dish of sweet bread pieces cooked in a mushroom and milk sauce with butter, flour, and egg yolks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweet Breads Creamed

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Cut the sweet breads into small pieces until you have 1 cup.

  2. Add 1 cup of mushrooms.

  3. In a saucepan, melt 1 tablespoon of butter.

  4. Stir in 1 tablespoon of flour.

  5. Gradually add 1 cup of milk, stirring until smooth.

  6. Flavor the sauce with salt, paprika, and a little lemon juice.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the sweet breads and mushrooms to the sauce and cook for about 8 minutes.

  2. Quickly stir in the beaten yolks of 2 eggs.

  3. Serve immediately.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  4. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  5. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet breads
Provide the tender, meaty body that makes this a substantial creamy sauce.
Mushrooms
Add earthy savory flavor and a soft, juicy texture to the sauce.
Butter
Enriches the roux and carries flavor, giving the sauce a rich mouthfeel.
Flour
Thickens the butter and milk into a smooth white sauce as it cooks.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the sauce, giving it a creamy body.
Eggs
Egg yolks thicken and enrich the sauce when stirred in near the end.

The step that matters

Quickly stir in the beaten egg yolks. Egg yolks thicken by gentle heat; if the sauce is too hot or boils after adding them, the yolks can scramble and the sauce turns grainy. Stir quickly and serve right away.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, mushroom, butter, flour, milk, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, mushroom, butter, flour, milk, egg. 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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