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Sweetbread and Mushroom Coquilles

Sweetbreads and canned mushrooms in a cream dressing, topped with cracker crumbs and cheese and baked in ramekins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Sweetbread and Mushroom Coquilles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Boil sweetbreads until tender.

  2. Remove skins and pipes from the sweetbreads.

  3. Soak sweetbreads in cold water to firm them.

  4. Cut sweetbreads into small pieces.

  5. Chop mushrooms into small pieces.

  6. Add mushrooms to sweetbreads.

Assemble and bake

  1. Cover with a rich cream dressing.

  2. Season with salt, paprika, and butter.

  3. Place mixture into ramekins.

  4. Top with buttered cracker crumbs and grated cheese.

  5. Set ramekins in a pan with a little hot water.

  6. Bake until browned.

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

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

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 forms the body of the dish.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and moisture to the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the crumbs and surface brown.
Grated cheese
Melts over the top and browns, adding savoury flavour and a golden crust.

The step that matters

Set ramekins in a pan with a little hot water. The hot water bath surrounds the ramekins with gentle, even heat, so the delicate sweetbread custard-like filling cooks through without curdling or drying out before the top browns.

“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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