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Bioe and Lamb's Sweet-bread

A rice dish baked with lamb's sweet-breads, cockscombs in German sauce, garnished with stewed mushrooms and truffles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and truffle are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Bioe and Lamb's Sweet-bread

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the rice

  1. Boil the rice until tender.

  2. Pound the rice and pour it into a well-buttered mold.

Bake and fill

  1. Brown the mold in a 350°F (175°C) oven.

  2. Scoop out a hole in the center of the rice.

  3. Fill the hole with lamb's sweet-breads and cockscombs cooked in German sauce.

  4. Garnish with stewed mushrooms and truffles.

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. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Rice + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,515 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the molded base that holds its shape and gives the dish its body.
Butter
Coats the mold so the rice releases cleanly and browns richly on the surface.
Lamb's sweet-breads
Provides the tender, delicate meat that fills the center of the dish.
German sauce
Cooks the filling and adds moisture and a creamy, savory coating.
Stewed mushrooms
Adds moisture and earthy flavor as a garnish.
Truffles
Adds a concentrated, aromatic earthy flavor as a finishing garnish.

The step that matters

Browning the mold in the oven. Pressed rice must be heated long enough to set and brown on the surface so it holds its shape when unmolded. Too little heat leaves it soft and likely to break 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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