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Timbale De Macaeonl

A stuffed macaroni dish with ox palates, mushrooms, and white sauce, baked in a mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Timbale De Macaeonl

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mold

  1. Boil the macaroni until tender but not too soft, then cut it into ½-inch pieces.

  2. Butter a mold and arrange the macaroni closely to resemble a honeycomb.

  3. Spread a thin layer of quenelle farce over the macaroni.

Fill and cook

  1. Fill the mold with the minced ox palates and mushrooms, moistened with white sauce.

  2. Close the mold and boil for 45 minutes.

Serve

  1. Carefully turn it out and serve with thick white sauce and mushrooms.

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. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  2. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Mushroom + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,480 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the honeycomb shell that holds the filling in its shape.
Ox palates
Provides the meaty filling that gives the timbale its main body.
White sauce
Adds moisture to the filling so it stays tender rather than dry.
Butter
Greases the mold so the timbale releases cleanly when turned out.

The step that matters

Carefully turn it out. The timbale is held together only by the macaroni shell and the set farce layer, so it should rest briefly to firm up before turning out; turning it too early can break the honeycomb pattern.

“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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