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Patty of Macaroni

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Patty of Macaroni

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.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Cover a dish with brioche paste.

  3. Stew the macaroni in butter and water or broth until tender, then strain and cut into pieces.

  4. Layer the macaroni at the bottom of the dish.

  5. Make forcemeat balls and mix with butter, then place them on top of the macaroni.

  6. Grate cheese over the forcemeat balls and macaroni.

  7. Add sliced fowl, game, veal, or ox palates on top.

  8. Layer blanched sweetbread slices and mushrooms over the meat.

  9. Pour gravy over the layers to fill the dish.

  10. Cover with more paste and bake until golden.

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. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cheese + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

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

  4. Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Brioche + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together187 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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