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Truffles, Buisson of

A dish of stewed truffles served on carved stale bread, skewered and topped with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,588 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Truffles, Buisson of

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the truffles

  1. Clean the truffles thoroughly.

  2. Stew the truffles for about 1 hour.

  3. Let the truffles cool in the cooking liquid.

Shape the bread

  1. Cut off the crust of the stale bread.

  2. Carve the crumb into an oval shape.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place the bread on a white napkin on a dish.

  2. Cover it with parsley.

  3. Stick about a dozen truffles around the bread with silver skewers.

  4. Pile the remaining truffles on top.

  5. Serve.

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 + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  2. Truffle + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together531 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Truffle + parsleytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,119 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

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

What each ingredient does

Round truffles
Form the main flavour and the dish's centrepiece, gently stewed until tender and aromatic.
Stale bread
Provides a firm, dry base that holds its oval shape and supports the truffles.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (truffle, bread):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against truffle, bread. 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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