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Piedmontese Truffles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Pepper and parmesan cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,322 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Piedmontese Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the truffles in oil.

  2. Slice them thin.

  3. Place in a stew pan with salt, oil, and pepper.

  4. Grate Parmesan cheese over the truffles.

  5. Cook in the stew pan over brisk fire for fifteen minutes.

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. Pepper + parmesan cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

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