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Hashed Game, Etc

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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Hashed Game, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove skin and sinews from the cold meat and chop it finely.

  2. Place the chopped meat in a stewpan with enough strong stock.

  3. Season with pepper, nutmeg, and coarse sea salt.

  4. Thicken the mixture with cream and heat until nearly boiling.

  5. Serve garnished with poached eggs and small pieces of bread tossed in oil.

  6. For white meats, fried oysters can replace the poached eggs.

  7. For hashed calf's head, fry small cakes made from the brains for garnish.

  8. For game, add chopped savoury herbs if desired.

  9. To serve en croustade, cut slices of bread, remove some crumb, fry in butter, and top with hash and a poached egg.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Nutmeg + creamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, pepper, cream, egg, bread, butter):

  1. Nutmegthe original
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Thymefits less well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, pepper, cream, egg, bread, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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