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In Matelotte Sauce

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

In Matelotte Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the brains as directed in No. 786 and drain them on a napkin.

  2. Cut the drained brains into scollops and arrange them in a circular order in a crustade.

  3. Make the matelotte sauce by combining white wine, cayenne pepper, and lemon juice.

  4. Add the simmered button onions, truffles, quenelles, mushrooms, and crayfish tails to the sauce.

  5. Pour the sauce over the arranged brains in the crustade.

  6. Crown the top with the large crayfish and place the fried crouton in the center.

  7. Garnish with the large truffle and serve.

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 + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  3. White wine + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

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

  5. White wine + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, pepper, lemon, butter, truffle, mushroom, crayfish):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, pepper, lemon, butter, truffle, mushroom, crayfish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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