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Petits Cremes Oe Pheasants

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Petits Cremes Oe Pheasants

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare ½ pound of clarified butter and let it cool slightly.

  2. Use a butter brush to work the butter until it shows white.

  3. Warm the butter for a minute and then butter 18 clean dariole moulds.

  4. Sprinkle finely chopped truffles at the bottom of each mould and set aside.

  5. Prepare the pheasants by removing the skin from the breast and cutting off the fillets.

  6. Separate the white meat and the meat from the legs and thighs onto different plates.

  7. Chop the bones into small pieces and place them in a quart stewpan.

  8. Cover the bones with 1 pint of white stock and bring to a boil.

  9. Add a bouquet of thyme and parsley, 6 chopped shallots, a little celery, and the yellow part of a carrot.

  10. Skim the stock and let it gently boil.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  3. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, truffle, pheasant, thyme, parsley, shallot, carrot):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, truffle, pheasant, thyme, parsley, shallot, carrot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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