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Salmi of Partridges

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,107 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Salmi of Partridges

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roast the partridges until cooked through.

  2. Prepare potato paste and fix it around the edge of a serving dish.

  3. Pour off excess stock from the partridges and return them to the oven to dry.

  4. Brush the partridges with glaze and return them to the oven briefly.

  5. Apply another coat of glaze and leave the oven door open to dry the glaze.

  6. Arrange eight partridges on the potato border and cover with entree covers.

  7. Heat the Brussels sprouts in a bain-marie.

  8. Skim and taste the sauce, adjusting as necessary.

  9. Strain the Brussels sprouts and place them in the center of each partridge.

  10. Pour the sauce around the carrots in each dish, cover, and serve.

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. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Sauce + carrottop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,509 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Potato + saucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Potato + brussels sproutstop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Brussels sprouts + carrottop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the brussels sprouts

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

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, sauce, carrot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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