Why it works: Egg and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 39% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,895 recipes. The science ↓
Fritox of Creme of Pheasant
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Glaze the top of the pie with a mixture of yolk of egg and a little water.
Bake the pie until done.
While baking, prepare a top from puff pastry.
Cut a hole in the top of the pie before or after baking, but do not remove the pastry piece until after baking.
Fill the hole with brown or Italian sauce.
Place the puff pastry top over the hole and serve.
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.
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Egg + saucetop 39% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together10,895 recipes
Egg and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,895 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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