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Canapes a L'arlequine- -harlequin Canapes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and truffle work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 412 recipes. Both carry 3-ethylphenol, which smells must. The science ↓

Canapes a L'arlequine- -harlequin Canapes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare small pieces of buttered toast.

  2. Decorate the toast with strips of chopped beef tongue, hard-boiled egg yolk and white, gherkins, truffles, smoked salmon, and parsley.

  3. Serve on a napkin.

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. Beef + truffletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).

  2. Truffle + salmontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Egg + salmontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Beef + parsleytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,866 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Egg + truffletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,604 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, egg, truffle, salmon):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, egg, truffle, salmon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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