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Paktridgb Salad

A salad of roast partridge, lettuce, hard‑boiled eggs, gherkins, pickled onions, and capers, dressed with oil and tarragon vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 405 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Paktridgb Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Marinate

  1. In a deep dish, combine the partridge, oil, tarragon vinegar, minced shallot, salt, and pepper.

Assemble and serve

  1. At serving time, place the partridge on a serving dish.

  2. Surround it with the cut lettuce.

  3. Garnish with quartered hard boiled eggs, minced gherkins, pickled onions, and capers.

  4. Stir everything together with the mixture from the deep dish.

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. Shallot + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Tarragon + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Lettuce + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Tarragon + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Tarragon + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together379 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Remains of roast partridge
Provides the main meat, which is the centrepiece of the salad.
Oil
Carries flavour and adds richness to the dressing and the meat.
Tarragon vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the oil.
Hard boiled eggs
Add soft, creamy texture and mild richness as a garnish.
Hearts of lettuce
Form the crisp, cool base that the partridge is set upon.

The step that matters

Combine the partridge with the dressing in the deep dish. Letting the meat sit in the oil, vinegar and shallot lets the acid and aromatics soak in, so the flavour is evenly distributed rather than sitting on the surface.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tarragon, vinegar, shallot, pepper, lettuce, egg, capers):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tarragon, vinegar, shallot, pepper, lettuce, egg, capers. 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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