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Sweetbread Rissoles

Sweetbread rissoles are small rolls of sweetbread coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried in lard, served with fried parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley 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 Rissoles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the binding

  1. Melt the butter in a pan.

  2. Add the sauce tournee and mix until thick.

  3. Season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice.

Shape and fry

  1. Roll the cold sweetbreads into small rolls.

  2. Coat the rolls in egg, then breadcrumbs twice.

  3. Fry the rolls in hot lard until golden brown.

  4. Serve with fried parsley.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Form the main body of the rolls, with a soft, delicate interior.
Sauce tournee
Thickens the mixture so it binds together and holds its shape.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that carries flavour through the mixture.
Egg
Acts as the glue that makes the breadcrumbs stick to the rolls.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp outer layer that browns during frying.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich sweetbread and sauce.

The step that matters

Fry in hot lard until golden brown. The lard must be hot so the breadcrumb coating sets quickly. Cooler fat soaks into the coating, making the rolls greasy and more likely to break apart.

“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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