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Morels Stuffed

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Morels Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Wash, clean, and trim the morels. Parboil them for 15 minutes, then immerse in cold water and drain on a napkin.

  2. Chop the trimmings and stems finely. In a saucepan, combine with butter and shallots. Cover and cook slowly until moisture is reduced.

  3. Let the mixture cool, then add the cooked forced meat and parsley. Stuff the morels with this mixture.

  4. Sprinkle fresh bread crumbs over the stuffed morels. Arrange them in a flat saucepan lined with thin slices of fat pork and place a small piece of butter on each.

  5. Moisten with broth and bake in the oven at 300°F (150°C) until nicely browned.

  6. Serve with a reduced Madeira wine sauce, adding a little chopped parsley.

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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Bread + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,371 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, shallot, chicken, bread, pork, madeira wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, shallot, chicken, bread, pork, madeira wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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