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Pigeons a LA Pumpton

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and mushroom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 12,516 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Also mentioned in the method: pastry

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Roll out the savoury force-meat and press it into a buttered dish.

  3. Layer the dish with bacon slices, squab pigeons, sweetbread, asparagus tops, mushrooms, cocks' combs, boiled palate pieces, and yolks of hard-boiled eggs.

  4. Make another layer of force-meat and cover the filling like a pie crust.

  5. Bake until done, then turn it out onto a serving dish.

  6. Pour rich gravy over the top and serve hot.

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. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together400 recipes

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

  3. Meat + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,422 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  4. Meat + asparagustop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Asparagus + eggtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,290 recipes

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

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

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