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Curried Sweetbreads

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42,912 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Curried Sweetbreads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash and soak the sweetbreads, then place them in boiling water with a little coarse sea salt and a whole onion.

  2. Simmer for 10 minutes, or use weak veal broth instead of water.

  3. Remove the sweetbreads and let them cool completely on a drainer.

  4. Cut the cooled sweetbreads into half-inch slices.

  5. Optionally, flour and lightly fry the slices in butter, or place them in enough curried gravy to cover.

  6. Stew the sweetbreads gently in the gravy for 20 to 30 minutes.

  7. Add lemon juice or chili vinegar to taste before serving hot.

  8. For added flavor, stew 1 ounce of freshly grated cocoa nut in the gravy before adding the sweetbreads.

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. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + cocoatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together548 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-undecalactone (coconut, creamy).

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Veal + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Onion + vealtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the cocoa

The recipe marks cocoa as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, veal, butter, lemon):

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Cocoathe original

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

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