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Timbales a LA Renaissance

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 600 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Timbales a LA Renaissance

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a salpicon by mixing truffles, chicken, artichoke bottoms, and garlic cut into 1/4 inch squares with reduced espagnole sauce, meat glaze, and tomato sauce.

  2. Butter the insides of timbale molds.

  3. Place a thin round piece of red beet-root at the bottom of each mold, cut a small circle in the center, and replace it with a green cooked pea.

  4. Garnish the mold with chicken cream forcemeat on the bottom and sides.

  5. Set a ball of the prepared salpicon in the center and finish as directed in the reference recipe.

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. Artichoke + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together600 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Chicken + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,850 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Artichoke + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together354 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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (truffle, chicken, artichoke, garlic, sauce, meat, butter):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against truffle, chicken, artichoke, garlic, sauce, meat, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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