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Sweet Breads— Broiled

Broiled sweet breads served with a butter and cream sauce flavored with pepper, salt, parsley, and optional mushrooms.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Sweet Breads— Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweet breads

  1. Parboil the sweet breads.

  2. Rub the sweet breads well with butter.

Broil

  1. Broil on a clean grill, turning often.

  2. Occasionally roll them in a plate with hot melted butter to keep them moist.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. Pour sweet cream into a pan.

  2. Add pepper, coarse sea salt, chopped parsley and flour.

  3. Bring to a boil.

  4. Pour sauce over the sweet breads.

  5. Add mushrooms if desired.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  5. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 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

Sweet breads
Main protein; parboiling and broiling firm it while it browns on the outside.
Butter
Adds fat that keeps the sweet breads moist and promotes browning on the grill.
Sweet cream
Forms the base of the sauce, giving it richness and a smooth texture.
Flour
Thickens the cream sauce as it comes to a boil.

The step that matters

Turning and basting while broiling. Sweet breads dry out and scorch quickly over direct heat. Turning often and rolling them in hot melted butter keeps the surface moist while it browns evenly.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, pepper, flour, cream, mushroom):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, pepper, flour, cream, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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