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Sandiciches a LA Lucullus

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 28,543 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Cut the fillets from the capon or fowl and beat them flat.

  2. Place the fillets into sandwich molds on a buttered baking sheet.

  3. Brush the top with egg white, cover with a thin layer of tongue slices, moisten with egg white, and add another layer of fillet.

  4. Cover with buttered paper and cook gently.

  5. Once done, press each sandwich and let them cool.

  6. Clean the molds, add a little aspic jelly to the bottom, place a sandwich in the center, and fill with aspic.

  7. Let set in a cool place, then turn out onto a silver or china dish and garnish with parsley.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together28,543 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Butter + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together118,511 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Egg + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,323 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg):

  1. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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