Name: Rissoles a LA Puree De Faisan
Ingredients: pancakes; chicken or veal forcemeat; spinach; D'Uxelle stuffing; Macedoine of vegetables; ham; sweetbread

Why it works: Chicken and spinach are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,146 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Rissoles a LA Puree De Faisan

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare pancakes as the base for rissoles.
Use chicken or veal forcemeat to seal the edges of the pancakes.
Fill with desired garnishing such as spinach, D'Uxelle stuffing, or a mixture of vegetables, ham, and sweetbread.
Shape into rissoles and cook until golden brown.
Serve as a garnish or main dish.

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.

Chicken + spinachtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,146 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,497 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Spinach + hamtop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together144 recipes

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