Name: Timbale a LA Chasseur
Ingredients: 1 escalope of rabbit; cooked truffles; ⅓ cup Madeira wine; coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt'); reduced Espagnole sauce; mushrooms

Why it works: Truffle and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Timbale a LA Chasseur

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare a timbale as described in the previous article.
Sauté the rabbit escalope and drain the butter.
Add the cooked truffles and season with reduced Espagnole sauce.
Unmold the timbale and remove the lid.
Take out the macaroni and fill with the rabbit and truffle mixture.
Arrange turned mushrooms around the edge.
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.

Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,900 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Truffle + madeira winetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together195 recipes
Rabbit + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together406 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Rabbit + saucetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together330 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Madeira wine + mushroomtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together176 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).