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Sweetbreads with Mushrooms

A savory dish of diced sweetbreads cooked with mushrooms, butter, flour, milk, and finished with egg yolks and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley 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 ↓

Sweetbreads with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Parboil the sweetbreads and cut them into dice.

Make the sauce

  1. Cook the chopped mushrooms in butter for five minutes.

  2. Add flour, salt, and paprika to the mushrooms.

  3. Gradually pour in the milk and mushroom liquor.

  4. Add the sweetbread dice and lemon juice.

Finish and serve

  1. Just before serving, stir in the egg yolks and parsley.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  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. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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.
Butter
Carries the mushrooms' flavour and gives the sauce richness.
Flour
Thickens the milk and liquor into a smooth sauce.
Milk
Forms the base of the creamy sauce.
Egg yolks
Enrich and thicken the sauce when stirred in at the end.
Mushroom liquor
Adds concentrated mushroom flavour to the sauce.

The step that matters

Stirring in the egg yolks. Egg yolks thicken through gentle heat. If the sauce is too hot or boils after they go in, the yolks can scramble and turn grainy. Add them just before serving, off strong heat, and stir steadily.

“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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