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Macaroni with Parmesan and Sweetbreads

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Macaroni with Parmesan and Sweetbreads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the macaroni in salted water.

  2. Let it simmer for at least 20 minutes.

  3. Remove from heat and thicken with cream and egg.

  4. Rasp parmesan cheese into the mixture.

  5. Dish the macaroni, pour the sauce over it, and top with sweetbreads.

  6. Garnish with lemon slices, pickled cucumber, fried breadcrumbs, or 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. Cucumber + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,564 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + cucumbertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,067 recipes

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

  4. Cream + parmesan cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,566 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Egg + parmesan cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, egg, parmesan cheese, lemon, parsley):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg, parmesan cheese, lemon, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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