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Broiled Pigs Feet Larded with Truffles

Broiled pigs feet larded with truffles, butter, parsley, cayenne pepper, cloves, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Broiled Pigs Feet Larded with Truffles

Ingredients

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.

Prepare the feet

  1. Clean the pigs feet and soak them in water for a few hours.

  2. Boil the feet in salted water until tender, then drain.

Season and broil

  1. Lard the pigs feet with truffles and place them in a baking dish.

  2. Melt the butter and pour it over the feet.

  3. Sprinkle with minced parsley, cayenne pepper, and cloves.

  4. Broil in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Pigs feet
Provide the main body of the dish, with gelatin-rich skin and connective tissue that become tender when boiled.
Truffles
Add an earthy, aromatic flavour that perfumes the meat as it cooks.
Butter
Carries fat over the feet, helping them brown and adding richness.

The step that matters

Broil until golden brown. Broiling is fast and intense, so the feet can scorch before the surface browns evenly. Watch closely and keep the dish near the heat source only until golden.

Swap the clove

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against truffle, butter, parsley, 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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