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Sweetbread a LA Supreme

A sweetbread dish simmered in stock with vegetables, served on a potato border and topped with supreme sauce and peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Sweetbread a LA Supreme

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the sweetbread as directed in a previous recipe.

Cook

  1. In a stew pan, combine the sweetbread, boiling stock, chopped vegetables, peppercorns, and mace.

  2. Simmer gently for 1 to 1.5 hours until the sweetbread is tender.

Serve

  1. Place the sweetbread on the potato border, pour the supreme sauce over it, and garnish with peas.

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 + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  5. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 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

Sweetbread
Forms the main protein, becoming tender and delicate when gently simmered.
Boiling stock
Provides moisture and savoury flavour as the sweetbread cooks.
Supreme sauce
Adds a creamy, rich coating that moistens and flavours the sweetbread.
Potato border
Forms a starchy base that holds the sweetbread and sauce in place.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until tender. Boiling vigorously toughens the proteins in sweetbread and can break it apart, so a gentle simmer keeps it tender and intact.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, onion, celery, parsley, thyme, potato, sauce):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, onion, celery, parsley, thyme, potato, 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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