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Sweetbreads, Baked

Baked sweetbreads coated in egg and breadcrumbs, served golden brown.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweetbreads, Baked

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. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Soak the sweetbreads in cold water for a few hours, then remove any membranes.

  2. Boil the sweetbreads in salted water for about 10 minutes, then drain and cool.

Coat

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Dip the sweetbreads in the egg mixture, then coat with bread crumbs.

Bake

  1. Heat oil or butter in a baking dish.

  2. Place the coated sweetbreads inside.

  3. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.

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

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. 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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the bread crumbs to the sweetbreads and help form a golden coating.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust around the sweetbreads.
Oil or butter
Conducts heat into the crumb coating and helps it brown in the baking dish.

The step that matters

Removing the membranes after soaking. Membranes left on the sweetbreads stay tough and chewy after cooking, so they must be fully removed before boiling and coating.

“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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