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Scollops of Sweetbreads a LA Villeroi

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,842 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Scollops of Sweetbreads a LA Villeroi

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Blanch the sweetbreads in lukewarm water, changing the water 2-3 times.

  2. Boil the sweetbreads in stock for 30 minutes, then let them cool.

  3. Slice the sweetbreads, then dip in egg and coat with breadcrumbs.

  4. Fry the sweetbreads in clarified butter until golden brown.

  5. Thicken the cooking gravy with a little roux, add sherry and herbs, and simmer for 20 minutes.

  6. Strain the sauce through a fine mesh strainer and add the preserved mushrooms.

  7. Boil the turnips until tender, mash them, and mix in the boiled potatoes.

  8. Place the mashed turnips in the bottom of a hot serving dish.

  9. Arrange the fried sweetbreads in a circle on top of the turnips.

  10. Spoon the mushrooms into the center and pour the sauce around.

  11. Sprinkle the sweetbreads with a mixture of parsley and grated Parmesan cheese 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. Turnip + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Sherry + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).

  4. Mushroom + parmesan cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

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

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

Swap the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sherry, mushroom, potato, parsley, parmesan cheese):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Turnipthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sherry, mushroom, potato, parsley, parmesan cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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