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Sweet-breads with Mushrooms

Sweetbreads cooked with mushrooms, cream, butter, pepper, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Sweet-breads with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Parboil the sweetbreads until tender.

  2. Cut the sweetbreads into half-inch squares.

Cook the mushrooms

  1. Slice the mushrooms and stew them in the cooking liquid for one hour.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the cream, pepper, salt, and butter to the sweetbreads.

  2. Serve the sweetbreads with the mushrooms.

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

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Provide the main body of the dish, with a tender, creamy texture once parboiled.
Mushrooms
Add savory, earthy flavor and soft texture as they stew in their cooking liquid.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the sweetbreads a smooth, silky coating.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a rounded, buttery flavor.

The step that matters

Parboil the sweetbreads until tender. Parboiling firms the sweetbreads enough to cut into clean squares while keeping the inside tender and creamy. Boiling too hard or too long makes them tough and crumbly.

“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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