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Salmi of Ducks, Venison or Birds

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Salmi of Ducks, Venison or Birds

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, melt the butter over low heat.

  2. Stir in the flour and let it melt without browning.

  3. Add the soup broth, leeks, carrots, thyme, parsley, pepper, and salt.

  4. Bring to a boil and cook for 30 minutes.

  5. Remove the vegetables and add the game pieces.

  6. Simmer until the game is cooked through.

  7. Stir in the claret wine and lemon juice.

  8. Arrange the fried bread pieces around a serving dish.

  9. Place the game in the center and pour the sauce over it.

  10. Garnish with lemon slices.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Leek + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together360 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  5. Leek + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, carrot, thyme, parsley, pepper, wine):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Turnipfits about as well
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, carrot, thyme, parsley, pepper, wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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