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Sweetbread Cutlets

Sweetbread cutlets are pan‑fried sweetbread and mushroom patties served with allemande sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sweetbread Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Boil sweetbreads in salted water with lemon juice; drain and cover with cold water.

  2. When cold, chop sweetbreads finely and mix with chopped mushrooms to make 1 pint.

Make the filling

  1. Melt butter in a pan, add flour, salt, and pepper; stir until smooth.

  2. Slowly add cream and cook until thickened.

  3. Stir in lemon juice, nutmeg, parsley, beaten egg, sweetbreads, and mushrooms.

  4. Pour mixture onto a dish to cool, then shape into palm‑sized cutlets.

Fry and serve

  1. Roll cutlets in bread crumbs, then in diluted egg, and again in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry in hot lard until golden brown.

  3. Serve with allemande sauce.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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 filling that gives the cutlets their body and savory flavor.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy flavor to the chopped filling.
Cream
Thickens with the flour into a rich binding sauce that holds the filling together.
Flour
Thickens the butter and cream into a stable, binding base for the filling.
Beaten egg
Binds the filling and, diluted, helps bread crumbs adhere to the cutlets.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.

The step that matters

Cooling the filling before shaping. The cream and flour mixture must set firm as it cools; shaping it while warm makes the cutlets soft and likely to fall apart when coated and fried.

“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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