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Boudin a LA Richelieu

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 27,039 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Also mentioned in the method: egg

Directions

  1. Mince and pound the cooked chicken.

  2. Add the panada and eggs to the chicken mixture.

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

  4. Well butter a small basin or boudin mold and decorate it.

  5. Pour the chicken mixture into the mold and cover with a sheet of buttered paper.

  6. Steam for one hour.

  7. Turn onto an entrée dish and pour celery or béchamel sauce around 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. Pepper + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Lemon + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Veal + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together815 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,015 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + meattop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,445 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, ham, veal, meat, truffle, pepper, lemon):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, ham, veal, meat, truffle, pepper, lemon. 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).

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