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Aspic a LA Czarixa

Aspic a la Czarixa is a chilled grouse meat aspic served with sauces, truffles, rice, and green salad.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Aspic a LA Czarixa

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the grouse

  1. Pound the meat of 3 grouse in a mortar until smooth.

  2. Season the mixture and pass it through a sieve.

Make and set the mousse

  1. Mix the grouse with 1 pint of whipped cream, a little aspic, and chaudfroid sauce.

  2. Set the mixture in a square shallow mold on ice.

  3. Once set, turn it out and dress with brown chaudfroid sauce.

Decorate and serve

  1. Decorate with truffles and aspic, and place on a stand of rice.

  2. Surround with green salad.

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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Truffle + ricetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Sauce + truffletop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,490 recipes
  5. Cream + truffletop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together629 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Grouse
Provides the main flavour and the body of the smooth, pounded mixture.
Whipped cream
Adds air and richness, giving the set mixture a light, soft texture.
Aspic
Gelatine-based jelly that sets the mixture and gives a glossy finish.
Truffles
Add an earthy, aromatic note as a decorative finish.

The step that matters

Setting the mixture on ice. The mixture must be chilled until firm before it is turned out. Aspic sets through gelatine, which firms as it cools, so the shape holds only if the mold stays cold long enough.

“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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