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Queen Op Hash

A savory hash of chicken and veal livers, sweetbreads, truffles, mushrooms, tomatoes, and ham, simmered in stock, wine, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Liver and veal match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 392 recipes. Both carry enoic acid, which smells butter, cheesy. The science ↓

Queen Op Hash

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put boiled sweetbreads in hot butter and olive oil.

  2. Add browned flour, minced green onions, cayenne pepper, salt, cloves, and garlic.

  3. Stir in chicken livers, tomatoes, mushrooms, truffles, parsley, ham, stock, and wine.

  4. Cook for about 1 hour.

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. Liver + vealtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  4. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Mushroom + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,663 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Provide a tender, rich meat that becomes the body of the hash.
Chicken livers
Add a soft, creamy texture and deep savory richness to the sauce.
Browned flour
Thickens the cooking liquid and adds a toasted, nutty flavor.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and moisture that balance the richness of the livers.
Stock
Provides the main cooking liquid that gently braises the mixture.
Wine
Adds acidity and aroma that deepen the flavor of the sauce.

The step that matters

Cook for about 1 hour. A long, gentle simmer lets the liquid reduce and the livers and sweetbreads become tender without toughening. Cooking too hard or too briefly can leave the meats tough or the sauce thin.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, liver, mushroom, veal, truffle, ham, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, liver, mushroom, veal, truffle, ham, pepper. 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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