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Princess Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 901 recipes. Both carry methyleugenol, which smells clove, spice. The science ↓

Princess Sandwiches

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pound the cooked chicken meat in a mortar until fine.

  2. Add the egg yolks, grated cheese, mustard, tarragon vinegar, salad oil, salt, and pepper; mix into a smooth paste.

  3. Pass the mixture through a wire sieve.

  4. Cut thin slices of white bread and butter them.

  5. Spread the paste between two slices of bread and press them together.

  6. Use a plain oval cutter to stamp out the sandwiches, about 2 inches long.

  7. Arrange the sandwiches on a folded napkin or dish paper.

  8. Garnish with chopped egg white, chopped ox-tongue, and parsley before serving.

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. Mustard + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together901 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  2. Tarragon + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Tarragon + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,547 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the tarragon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, meat, egg, cheese, mustard, vinegar, pepper):

  1. Tarragonthe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, meat, egg, cheese, mustard, vinegar, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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