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Gelee De Viande — Aspic or Meat Jelly

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Gelee De Viande — Aspic or Meat Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a stock pot, combine veal knuckles, soaked pig's skin, chicken giblets, and calf's feet.

  2. Moisten with good broth and add carrots, onions, leeks, celery, parsley roots, cloves, thyme, and bay leaves.

  3. Simmer for 4 hours, skimming off fat and impurities.

  4. Test the firmness of the broth by placing a ½ cup of it on ice.

  5. Add the necessary amount of soaked gelatine to the broth.

  6. Clarify the broth with lean chopped beef and a few egg whites.

  7. Flavor the jelly with Madeira or dry white wine, and optionally add tarragon and chervil 2 minutes before straining.

  8. Season to taste, then strain the jelly through a close napkin or felt jelly bag.

  9. Set the strained jelly in a bowl on ice until firm.

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.

Explore the science

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  4. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Leek + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, chicken, carrot, onion, leek, celery, parsley):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, chicken, carrot, onion, leek, celery, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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