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Sweetbreads with Peas

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Sweetbreads with Peas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the sweetbreads in cold water for a short time.

  2. Parboil the sweetbreads, then remove them from the water and take off all the skin.

  3. Place the sweetbreads in a saucepan and boil until tender.

  4. Prepare a cream sauce and season it with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  5. Boil the green peas and season them.

  6. Arrange the sweetbreads on a serving dish with the peas around them.

  7. Pour the cream sauce over the sweetbreads and peas.

  8. 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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pepper + peastop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pepper + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together21,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Pepper + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Peas + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

Pepper and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cream, sauce):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Peasthe original

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

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