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Potage Profiterolles Au Chasseur

A game consommé soup served with profiteroles filled with game stuffing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Potage Profiterolles Au Chasseur

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the profiteroles

  1. Remove the crust from the bottom and the inside of the profiteroles.

  2. Fill the emptied profiteroles with game stuffing.

  3. Grease a baking dish with butter.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake the profiteroles in the oven until cooked through.

  2. Arrange the baked profiteroles in a soup tureen.

  3. Pour the game consommé over the profiteroles.

  4. Serve immediately to prevent the profiteroles from becoming soggy.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Profiteroles
Act as the soft bread vessels that hold the stuffing and soak up the consommé.
Game consommé
Provides the clear, savoury liquid that moistens and flavours the soup.
Game stuffing
Adds richness and savoury filling inside the baked bread rolls.

The step that matters

Serve immediately after pouring the consommé. Bread soaks up liquid quickly, so the profiteroles lose their structure and turn soggy if they sit in the hot consommé. Serving right away keeps them intact.

“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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