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Sweet Sweetbread Pasty

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and currant are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,918 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Sweet Sweetbread Pasty

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Line a dish with pasty dough.

  3. Cover the dough with veal or vegetable filling, seasoned sweet.

  4. Lay in collops of veal that have been beaten and rolled in white spices.

  5. If not very fat, place a thin slice of bacon over each collop.

  6. Cover with a slice of veal or lamb's sweetbread.

  7. Add more veal, then cover with artichoke bottoms, hard-boiled eggs, and meatballs.

  8. Top with minced apples, then sprinkle sugar and plumped currants over the top.

  9. Finish by covering with minced marrow or fresh butter.

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. Apple + curranttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

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

  3. Artichoke + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together893 recipes

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

  4. Currant + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, artichoke, egg, apple, sugar, butter):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, artichoke, egg, apple, sugar, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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