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Sweetbreads and Green-pea Sauce

Sweetbreads are sliced, coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried, and served with a green pea sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and peas are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,066 recipes. Both carry (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol, which smells freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes. The science ↓

Sweetbreads and Green-pea Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the sweetbreads

  1. Slice the stewed sweetbreads.

  2. Dip the slices in beaten eggs, then coat with breadcrumbs.

  3. Chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat olive oil in a deep pan and fry the sweetbreads until golden.

  2. To make the green-pea sauce, add cooked peas to the plain white sauce and mix well.

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. Olive + peastop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,066 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  2. Olive + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Egg + peastop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,065 recipes

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

  4. Peas + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,109 recipes
  5. Egg + olivetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the breadcrumbs to the sweetbread slices so the coating holds during frying.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when fried.
Cooked peas
Add flavour and colour to the white sauce, giving the green-pea sauce its body and sweetness.
Plain white sauce
Forms the creamy base that carries the peas and keeps the sauce smooth.

The step that matters

Chilling the coated sweetbreads. Chilling lets the egg and breadcrumb coating set and firm up, so it is less likely to slip off or soak through when the slices hit the hot oil.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, olive, sauce):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, olive, sauce. 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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