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Calf's Sweetbread Pudding

A pudding made from calf sweetbread, milk rolls, butter, eggs, and optional mushrooms, boiled in a kettle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Calf's Sweetbread Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the sweetbread in salted water for a few minutes.

  2. Remove from water, let cool, and cut into nut-sized pieces.

  3. Grate the crust from the milk rolls and soak them in milk for 30 minutes.

  4. Wring out the soaked rolls well.

Make the batter

  1. Cream the butter and gradually add the egg yolks and salt.

  2. Mix in the soaked bread and sweetbread pieces. Add mushrooms if desired.

  3. Fold in the whipped egg whites.

  4. Pour the batter into a pudding form.

Cook

  1. Boil for 15 minutes in a kettle with boiling water.

  2. Place the covered kettle into the Caloric cooker for 2 hours.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Milk + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbread
Provides the tender, rich meat that gives the pudding its main body and flavour.
Milk rolls
Soaked and wrung out, they add bulk and a soft, custard-like crumb to the batter.
Butter
Creamed with the yolks, it adds fat and richness and a smooth, tender texture.
Egg yolks
Enrich the batter and help bind it, adding richness and setting structure when cooked.
Egg whites
Whipped and folded in, they trap air that lightens the batter and helps it rise.

The step that matters

Folding in the whipped egg whites. Stirring vigorously deflates the foam trapped in the whites, so the pudding turns dense instead of light. Fold gently and keep the batter airy before it is poured.

“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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