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Sweetbreads En Caisse

A baked dish of sweetbreads seasoned with herbs, mushrooms, and breadcrumbs, wrapped in paper cases.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sweetbreads En Caisse

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Prepare and lard the sweetbreads as previously directed.

  2. Chop fine herbs and mushrooms, then mix with salt, pepper, and oil.

  3. Pour the herb mixture over the sweetbreads.

Assemble

  1. Make several cases from strong paper and oil each case.

  2. Place a few bread crumbs and some seasoning at the bottom of each case.

  3. Add the sweetbreads and top with more seasoning.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in an oven at 400°F (200°C) or place on hot ashes until they are nicely colored.

  2. Serve in the cases.

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 + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Form the tender main body of the casserole, becoming soft and delicate when cooked.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and savory, earthy flavor to the herb mixture.
Bread crumbs
Soak up juices at the base of each case and help the dish hold together.
Oil
Carries the herbs and seasoning and helps the surface brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Bake until nicely colored. Sweetbreads need enough heat for the surface to brown while the inside stays tender. Too little heat leaves them pale and soft; too long can dry them out.

“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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