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Sweetbread Patties, Allemande

Sweetbread patties are diced sweetbreads simmered with shallots, parsley, flour, spices, and sauce, then baked in puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sweetbread Patties, Allemande

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Blanch the sweetbreads in salt water.

  2. Cut the blanched sweetbreads into small dice.

  3. Broil the diced sweetbreads in butter.

Make the filling

  1. Add chopped shallots, parsley, and flour.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg, lemon juice, and cayenne.

  3. Let the mixture simmer for a few minutes.

  4. Moisten with a little white sauce or supreme sauce.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill small puff pastry cases with the mixture.

  2. Cover the pastry cases.

  3. Serve on a folded napkin.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

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 patty filling.
Butter
Browns the diced sweetbreads during broiling and adds richness.
Flour
Thickens the mixture so it holds together in the patty cases.
White sauce or supreme sauce
Moistens the filling, adding creaminess and keeping it from drying out.

The step that matters

Broiling the diced sweetbreads in butter. Sweetbreads are delicate and can dry out or toughen if overcooked. Browning them briefly in butter seals the surface and adds flavour while keeping the inside moist.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, shallot, parsley, flour, pepper, nutmeg, sauce):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, shallot, parsley, flour, pepper, nutmeg, sauce. 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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