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Quenelles of Dory a LA Pascaline

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Quenelles of Dory a LA Pascaline

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the skin from the dory fillets and pound the flesh in a mortar.

  2. Rub the pounded dory through a wire quenelle sieve.

  3. Chop the dory bones and place them in a stewpan with ½ cup white stock and 1½ cups water.

  4. Add vegetables and a bouquet of parsley, thyme, and bay leaf; boil slowly for 1 hour.

  5. Strain the stock and mix it with enough white roux to thicken to single cream consistency.

  6. Simmer for 30 minutes, removing any scum and fat, and reduce to proper consistency.

  7. Stir in 1 cup double cream and pass through a tammy cloth.

  8. Add 1 tablespoon butter, 6 finely chopped champignons, and juice of ½ lemon.

  9. Finely chop the blanched parsley and mix it into the sauce just before serving.

  10. Mix the dory flesh into quenelles, model, cook, and serve as directed for pheasant quenelles.

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 + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

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

  3. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  5. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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