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Aspic with Tongue and Mushrooms

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 292 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Aspic with Tongue and Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the aspic until smooth and cool it.

  2. Slice the mushrooms and chop the tongue finely.

  3. Form the chopped tongue into balls and drop them into the aspic.

  4. Once set, pour the remaining aspic into the moulds.

  5. When hard, turn out the aspic onto lettuce leaves and serve with mayonnaise.

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. Mushroom + lettucetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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