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Sweetbreads Full Dressed

Breaded sweetbreads fried in dripping and served with mushroom ketchup, melted butter, or anchovy sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Ketchup and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Sweetbreads Full Dressed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Parboil the sweetbreads and let them cool.

  2. Cut the sweetbreads into pieces about ¾ inch thick.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each piece in the egg yolk.

  2. Coat the pieces with fine bread crumbs mixed with spices, lemon peel, and sweet herbs if desired.

  3. Heat clean dripping in a frying pan until it boils.

  4. Fry the sweetbreads in the hot dripping until they are golden brown.

Serve

  1. Garnish with crisp parsley.

  2. Serve with mushroom ketchup, melted butter, or anchovy sauce. Bacon or ham can also be added.

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. Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Main protein; parboiling firms it so the pieces hold their shape while frying.
Egg yolk
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs stick to the sweetbreads.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust when fried.
Clean dripping
Frying fat that conducts heat and browns the crumb coating.

The step that matters

Frying in hot dripping. The dripping must be hot enough before the sweetbreads go in. Adding them to fat that is too cool lets the coating absorb oil and turn greasy instead of crisp and golden.

“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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