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A French Raised Pie of Fowls or Game, to Be Served Cold

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

A French Raised Pie of Fowls or Game, to Be Served Cold

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick, singe, and draw the birds, then bone them.

  2. Season the insides with seasoning salt and spices.

  3. Fill the birds with forcemeat to maintain their shape.

  4. Place them in a stewpan with consomme or gravy, bones, and remaining forcemeat.

  5. Add button mushrooms and truffles, then stew gently until the birds are cooked.

  6. Strain the gravy and season with cayenne, white pepper, and salt.

  7. Let the mixture cool, then fill the pie case with the birds and forcemeat.

  8. Cover with jelly and decorate with aspic, lemon slices, and parsley.

  9. Prepare the pie case using a buttered tin mold and roll out the pastry to ½ inch thickness.

  10. Press the pastry into the mold and join the edges securely.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

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 (mushroom, truffle, pepper, lemon, parsley, flour, butter):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, truffle, pepper, lemon, parsley, flour, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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