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Broiled Pheasant

A pheasant prepared by cutting, seasoning, coating with egg and breadcrumbs, then broiling until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Broiled Pheasant

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pheasant

  1. Draw the pheasant and lay it on its breast.

  2. Cut down the backbone and remove it entirely.

  3. Cut off the feet at the knuckle and break the leg and thigh bones.

  4. Turn the leg inside and separate the breast joint of the wing.

  5. Press the bird flat and sauté it in a pan with lard or dripping until browned on both sides.

  6. Season well with salt and pepper.

Coat and broil

  1. Coat with egg and bread crumbs.

  2. Broil on a gridiron over moderate heat for about 15 minutes until done.

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Pheasant + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together239 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pheasant + peppertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together462 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  5. Pheasant + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Pheasant
Provides the main meat, which is flattened so it cooks evenly.
Egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the bird's surface.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating when broiled.
Lard or dripping
Conducts heat for browning and adds richness to the surface.

The step that matters

Broil on a gridiron over moderate heat for about 15 minutes until done. Moderate heat lets the thick meat cook through while the breadcrumb coating browns. Too high a heat would scorch the crumbs before the inside reaches a safe, fully cooked temperature.

“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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