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Sweet-bread Patties

Sweetbread patties are diced sweetbreads cooked in a cream and flour sauce, served in pattie shells.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sweet-bread Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Soak the sweetbreads in salted water for about 3 hours. Skim the water.

  2. Place the sweetbreads in 1 quart of water with the chile pepper and onion. Cook thoroughly.

  3. Remove and let cool before cutting into dice.

Make the filling

  1. In a pan, mix the cream, flour, butter, pepper, and salt. Combine all ingredients and bring to a boil.

  2. Serve in pattie shells.

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

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Onion + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Provide the main meaty texture of the filling.
Cream
Adds richness and body to the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the cream sauce as it heats.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth sauce.

The step that matters

Bring the cream sauce to a boil. Flour needs to be heated fully with the cream and butter to cook out its raw starch taste and to thicken the sauce evenly. Stirring while it heats helps prevent lumps.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cream, flour, butter):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, cream, flour, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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