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Timbale Turinoise,

A baked macaroni dish with ham, ox tongue, mushrooms, cheese, and sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Timbale Turinoise,

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Mix and bake

  1. In a bowl, combine the macaroni, ham, ox tongue, mushrooms, Parmesan cheese, and lemon rind.

  2. Add the demi-glace or Madeira sauce, chicken or rabbit meat, butter, white sauce, cream, eggs, salt, and pepper, and mix well.

  3. Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish.

  4. Bake for 30-40 minutes until set and golden on top.

  5. Let cool slightly before serving.

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.

Explore the science

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. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + parmesan cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  5. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm when baked.
Macaroni
Provides the body and bulk that holds the timbale together.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the custard-like mixture tender.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savory flavor and helps the top brown as it bakes.
White sauce
Adds moisture and a smooth, creamy texture to the mixture.
Demi-glace or madeira sauce
Adds deep savory flavor and color to the meat and pasta.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Underbaking leaves the egg-based mixture loose and wet, while overbaking can make it dry and rubbery. Baking until just set lets the eggs firm into a sliceable custard that holds its shape.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, mushroom, parmesan cheese, sauce, chicken, butter, cream):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Grapefits about as well
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, mushroom, parmesan cheese, sauce, chicken, butter, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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