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Chestnut and Chanterelle Dressing with Chive Biscuits

Get a head start on this dish by baking the biscuits a day in advance. After cutting out the biscuits, reserve and bake the scraps of leftover dough. They will be processed into crumbs to sprinkle on the dressing before baking.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and chanterelle share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 32 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By williamssonoma. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Flour + chanterelletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Chive + chanterelletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Chestnut + chanterelletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Chive + chestnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Flour + buttermilktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, chive, buttermilk, chicken, chestnut):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, butter, chive, buttermilk, chicken, chestnut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).