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Curried Atlets

A dish of sweetbreads, veal or mutton, oysters, and breadcrumbs cooked with butter, curry powder, lemon juice, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and oyster are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,184 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Curried Atlets

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the filling

  1. Combine sweetbreads, veal or mutton, butter, curry powder, lemon juice, and salt in a stewpan.

  2. Cook over low heat until half done.

  3. Add blanched oysters with their liquor and simmer for 5 minutes.

  4. Transfer to a dish and let cool.

Assemble and broil

  1. Skewer the mixture alternately on small wooden or silver skewers.

  2. Dip skewers in the liquor and coat with breadcrumbs.

  3. Broil over a clear fire until browned.

  4. Serve with curry sauce underneath.

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. Butter + oystertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

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

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

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

  4. Veal + oystertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together988 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Provide a tender, delicate meaty texture that holds up to gentle cooking.
Veal or mutton
Adds savory meat body and structure to the skewered filling.
Fresh butter
Carries the curry flavor and keeps the meat moist during cooking.
Curry powder
Supplies the warm spiced aroma that defines the dish.
Blanched oysters
Contribute a briny, rich flavor and soft texture to the filling.
Fine breadcrumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns under the broiler.

The step that matters

Broil over a clear fire until browned. Breadcrumb-coated skewers can scorch on the outside before the filling heats through. A clear, steady fire with close attention browns the crumbs evenly while the interior stays hot and juicy.

“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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