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Sweet Breads with Mushrooms

A stew of sweetbreads and mushrooms cooked with cream, butter, and optional wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Sweet Breads with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Parboil the sweetbreads until tender.

  2. Drain the sweetbreads.

  3. Remove the skin from the sweetbreads.

  4. Cut the sweetbreads into small pieces.

Cook and serve

  1. Stew the mushrooms in their own liquid for 1 hour.

  2. Add the cream, salt, pepper, and butter to the sweetbreads.

  3. Cook the sweetbreads until tender and ready to serve.

  4. Add the mushrooms.

  5. If desired, stir in the wine before serving.

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. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  5. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

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

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 forms the body of the dish.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and moisture as they stew in their own liquid.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to the sauce.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a silky mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Cook the sweetbreads until tender and ready to serve. Sweetbreads turn firm and rubbery if overcooked, while undercooked ones stay soft and unpleasant. Gentle, steady heat with the cream keeps the texture tender and the sauce smooth.

“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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