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Sweetbreads a LA Jardiniere

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and cauliflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 286 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sweetbreads a LA Jardiniere

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scrape the carrots and peel the turnips.

  2. Cut them into fancy shapes using a vegetable cutter.

  3. Boil the vegetables in a little broth until tender.

  4. Drain the vegetables and place them in a saucepan with an equal amount of green peas, French beans, asparagus peas, and sprigs of cauliflower.

  5. Ensure the additional vegetables are cooked and drained.

  6. Pour the gravy from the sweetbreads over the vegetables.

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. Turnip + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Asparagus + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

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

  4. Beans + asparagustop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Turnip + asparagustop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together328 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, beans, asparagus, cauliflower):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Chestnutfits about as well
  3. Peasthe original
  4. Lima beansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, beans, asparagus, cauliflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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