Name: Lamb’s Sweetbreads
Ingredients: Lamb's sweetbreads; Eggs; Seasoned bread crumbs; Batter; Toasted bacon (optional)

Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lamb’s Sweetbreads

Ingredients

Directions

Choose young and tender lamb's sweetbreads.
Parboil the sweetbreads like calf's sweetbreads.
Dip them in beaten eggs and then in seasoned bread crumbs.
Fry in a little batter until golden brown.
Serve with toasted bacon; no gravy needed.

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.

Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Lamb + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together598 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Lamb + eggtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,204 recipes

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