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Timbale of Lazagnes , Flavoured with the Essence of Kept Game

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parmesan cheese and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,041 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Timbale of Lazagnes , Flavoured with the Essence of Kept Game

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a paste with the yolks of 8 eggs, rolling it out as thin as possible.

  2. Cut the paste into strips 4 inches long and ½ inch wide.

  3. Simmer the strips in boiling broth until very tender, then drain.

  4. In a large stewpan, combine half the strips with 8 ounces of butter, 8 ounces of grated Parmesan, and 2 pinches of white pepper.

  5. Add the remaining strips, 4 ounces of grated Gruyère, and 1 tablespoon of jelly broth; season well.

  6. Pour half of the mixture into a prepared timbale.

  7. Add a blanquette of poultry with mushrooms and béchamel sauce mixed with jelly broth and essence of mushrooms.

  8. Top with the remaining mixture and bake for 1.5 hours.

  9. Glaze the top and sides of the timbale and serve immediately.

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. Parmesan cheese + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,041 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Parmesan cheese + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Butter + parmesan cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, parmesan cheese, cheese, mushroom, sauce):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, parmesan cheese, cheese, mushroom, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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