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Veal Sweetbreads a LA Dauphine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and liver match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 392 recipes. Both carry enoic acid, which smells butter, cheesy. The science ↓

Veal Sweetbreads a LA Dauphine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lard the sweetbreads and cut a slit in one side of each without cutting through.

  2. Stuff the slit with veal forcemeat.

  3. Stew the sweetbreads as directed previously.

  4. Prepare a ragout with truffles, mushrooms, fat livers, artichoke bottoms, and small balls of forcemeat.

  5. Add orange juice to the ragout and pour it into a serving dish.

  6. Place the stewed sweetbreads on top and serve hot.

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. Veal + livertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).

  2. Mushroom + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Mushroom + artichoketop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together447 recipes

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

  5. Veal + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together815 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, truffle, mushroom, liver, artichoke, beef):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, truffle, mushroom, liver, artichoke, beef. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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