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Stuffed Dormice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and nuts work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 67 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Stuffed Dormice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Take dormice and remove the meat from their limbs.

  2. Pound the meat and mix with pepper, nuts, assafoetida, and sauce.

  3. Stuff the mixture back into the dormice.

  4. Place the stuffed dormice in a tiled dish.

  5. Cook them in a warm place or in an oven.

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. Pork + nutstop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pork + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pepper + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pepper + nutstop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together187 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

Pepper and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,303 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, sauce):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Black-eyed peafits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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