Name: Tomato and Sweet-bread Salad
Ingredients: 1 large tomato; 1 cup sweetbreads, boiled and diced; ½ cup mayonnaise dressing; ¼ teaspoon salt; a dash of paprika

Tomato and Sweet-bread Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Peel the tomato and remove its contents.

Make the filling

In a bowl, mix the diced sweetbreads with mayonnaise, salt, and paprika.
Fill the tomato with the sweetbread mixture.

Serve

Serve the tomato very cold, one for each guest.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads: Provide the main savory filling, with a tender, diced texture.
Mayonnaise dressing: Adds moisture and richness, binding the diced sweetbreads into a creamy filling.
Tomato: Serves as the edible shell that holds the filling and adds fresh acidity.

“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.