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Sweet Bread Hash with Veal Livers

A savory hash of sweetbreads and veal livers cooked with garlic, onion, parsley, cloves, and sherry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Sweet Bread Hash with Veal Livers

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Parboil the sweetbreads.

Cook the hash

  1. Heat olive oil in a skillet.

  2. Cut the veal liver into small pieces and add to the skillet when the oil is hot.

  3. Brown the liver, then add garlic, onion, parsley, cloves, salt, pepper, sweetbreads, flour, and stock.

  4. Stir in the sherry and butter just 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.

Explore the science

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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Veal + livertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).

  3. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Provide the tender, meaty body of the hash after parboiling.
Veal liver
Adds rich, savoury flavour and a soft texture when browned in the pan.
Browned flour
Thickens the cooking liquid and gives a toasted, nutty depth to the sauce.
Stock
Provides moisture and a savoury base that forms the sauce.
Sherry
Adds acidity and aroma that brighten the rich liver and sweetbreads.
Butter
Adds fat and a silky finish to the sauce when stirred in at the end.

The step that matters

Brown the liver, then add the remaining ingredients. Browning the liver in hot oil creates surface colour and flavour through the Maillard reaction. Cut pieces left to steam in a crowded or cool pan turn grey and tough, losing that depth before the stock is added.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, liver, butter, flour, garlic, parsley, olive):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, liver, butter, flour, garlic, parsley, olive. 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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