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Stewed Sweetbreads

Stewed sweetbreads are simmered in milk and seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26,984 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Stewed Sweetbreads

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the sweetbreads in salt and water for 20 minutes.

  2. Remove them, wipe well, and take off the skin.

  3. Parboil the sweetbreads for 20 to 30 minutes.

Stew and serve

  1. Stew them in a little milk until tender.

  2. Add a pinch of salt and pepper.

  3. Make a sauce with the milk and serve.

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 + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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 is the main component of the dish.
Milk
Keeps the sweetbreads moist as they stew and forms the base of the sauce.

The step that matters

Parboil the sweetbreads. Parboiling firms the tissue and helps remove impurities before stewing. Cooking too long makes the sweetbreads tough and dry, so timing matters.

“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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