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Tongue a LA Lancret

A dish of boiled tongue served with cauliflower and mayonnaise sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,786 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Directions

Prepare the tongue

  1. Boil, truss, and trim the tongue.

  2. Place the tongue on a serving dish.

Prepare the cauliflower

  1. Boil the cauliflowers gently until just tender, then cool.

  2. Cut three cauliflowers into small bunches.

Assemble and serve

  1. Dip each bunch in the mayonnaise sauce and arrange on the dish.

  2. Dip the whole cauliflower in the sauce and place it on the tongue.

  3. Garnish with the bunches around the tongue and add a few stoned olives.

  4. Carve the tongue into a design of your choice and glaze it.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sauce + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,786 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Cauliflower + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cauliflower + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Tongue
Forms the main body of the dish and is carved into the finished design.
Cauliflowers
Provide the tender, mild vegetable that is coated and arranged as the garnish.
Mayonnaise sauce with whipped cream
Coats the cauliflower and adds richness and a smooth, creamy texture.

Flavor stand-ins for the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, cream):

  1. Horseradishbetter flavor fit
  2. Onionbetter flavor fit
  3. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, cream. 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).

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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