Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 124,287 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
Mushroom Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
To make a pt. of sauce use 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 tablespoon flour; put over the fire and stir until brown; then put in 1/0 pt. of Abater or chicken broth; i/^> pt. of essence of mushrooms; stir until tiie sauce is smooth; season with saltspoon salt, % saltspoon pepper; put in the mushrooms and boil 3 minutes.
THE AVARREN COOK BOOK
POULTRY AND GAME. 51
POULTRY AND GAME
Mrs. L. G. Noyes
Poultry includes all domestic birds suitable for food, except pigeon and squab, examples: — Chicken, fowl, turkey, duck, goose, etc. Game includes such birds and animals suitable for food as are pursued and taken in field and forest ; examples : — quail, partridge, Avild duck, plover, deer, etc. The flesh of game, with the exception of wild duck and wild geese is tender and contains less fat than poultry and is of fine flavor. Game meat is of dark color, partridge and quail being exceptions, and is usually cooked rare.
The great secret of cooking game is constant basting, it should be under done, red in the middle full of gravy, but not raw.
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. See the original page.
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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.
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Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together124,287 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together50,459 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together85,593 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 124,287 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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