Why it works: Madeira wine and truffle work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 195 recipes. The science ↓
Salmis De Perdreaux Aux Truffes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the partridges as previously instructed.
Add ½ cup of Madeira wine to the pan with the partridge scraps during sauce reduction.
Add the peeled truffles to the sauce and let it boil for 10 minutes.
Remove the truffles, slice them thinly, and garnish the salmis with them.
Replace mushrooms with truffles in the salmis preparation.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Madeira wine + truffletop 13% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together195 recipes
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