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Fried Sweetbread

Fried sweetbread coated in egg and breadcrumbs, cooked in hot fat and served immediately.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fried Sweetbread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dip the prepared sweetbreads into the egg.

  2. Coat the sweetbreads with bread crumbs.

  3. Fry in hot fat for two minutes.

  4. Strain on paper and serve immediately.

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the sweetbreads so the coating stays on while frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns in the hot fat.
Prepared sweetbreads
The main ingredient, whose tender interior is enclosed by the crumb coating.

The step that matters

Frying in hot fat. If the fat is not hot enough, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of crisp. Frying at high heat sets the crumb quickly, keeping the sweetbreads inside tender and the coating crisp.

“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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