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Sweetbread Patties

Sweetbread patties are made from boiled sweetbreads, mushrooms, and a white sauce, served in timbales or patty shells.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Sweetbread Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Remove sweetbreads from packaging and soak in cold water for 30 minutes.

  2. Drain and place in boiling water with vinegar and salt; simmer for 20 minutes.

  3. Drain again and plunge into cold water.

  4. Remove tubes and membrane from sweetbreads and cut into small pieces.

Make and serve

  1. Make a white sauce, add sweetbreads and mushrooms, and heat until hot.

  2. Serve in Swedish timbales or patty shells.

  3. Omit mushrooms if desired.

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. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + vinegartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,070 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).

Butter and flour 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 substance of the patties, becoming tender after simmering.
Butter
Enriches the white sauce with fat, adding richness and smooth texture.
Flour
Thickens the butter and liquid into a white sauce that binds the filling.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and moisture to the filling.

The step that matters

Simmering the sweetbreads in vinegar and salt. Simmering gently in acidulated, salted water firms and whitens the sweetbreads while keeping them tender. Boiling too hard can toughen the meat and break it apart.

“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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