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Sheeps' Tongue on Toast

Sheeps' tongue on toast is a dish of cooked sheep's tongue served over buttered dry toast with cream sauce, parsley, lemon rind, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon 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 ↓

Sheeps' Tongue on Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a saucepan, combine the cooked sheep's tongue with the cream sauce.

  2. Add the chopped parsley, lemon rind, and nutmeg to the mixture.

  3. Stir over low heat until well-heated.

Serve

  1. Pour the mixture over buttered dry toast and serve hot.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Cream + nutmegtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Sheeps' tongue
Provides the main meaty body and substance of the filling.
Cream sauce
Adds moisture and richness, binding the filling and keeping it soft on the toast.
Parsley
Adds fresh, herbal aroma and a little color to the filling.
Lemon rind
Adds bright aromatic acidity that cuts the richness of the cream sauce.

The step that matters

Stir over low heat until well-heated. Cream sauce can split or scorch if overheated, so gentle heating keeps it smooth and evenly warm while the tongue heats through.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sauce, parsley, nutmeg):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Coconutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sauce, parsley, nutmeg. 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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