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Bread cups are fried bread shells filled with creamed sweetbreads, chicken, veal, or beef.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,148 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Bread Cups

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut slices of bread 6 inches thick.

  2. Use a deep cutter to shape the bread into cups.

Fry and fill

  1. Fry the bread cups in hot lard until brown.

  2. Remove the centers of the cups.

  3. Fill the cups with creamed sweetbreads, chicken, veal, or beef.

Serve

  1. 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. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Veal + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Bread + beeftop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Chicken + vealtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  5. Bread + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Forms the cup shell, which crisps and browns when fried.
Hot lard
Fries the bread cups, browning and crisping their surface.
Creamed sweetbreads
Rich, creamy filling that contrasts with the crisp bread shell.

The step that matters

Fry the bread cups until brown. Frying in hot fat sets and browns the bread surface, so the cup holds its shape and stays crisp under the filling. Too little heat leaves it greasy and soft.

“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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