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Prince George Sandwiches

A sandwich made with minced cold game, truffle, mushroom, and meat glaze, served on buttered milk rolls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Prince George Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix the minced cold game with a little stiff salmi sauce, chopped truffle, and chopped mushroom.

  2. Incorporate enough dissolved meat glaze to form a smooth paste.

Assemble and serve

  1. Cut large milk rolls into slices ⅛ inch thick and butter them lightly.

  2. Spread the minced game mixture on half the slices and cover with the other halves.

  3. Press gently, trim if necessary, and serve on a folded napkin garnished with watercress.

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

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  4. Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Mushroom + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold game
Provides the main meaty body and bulk of the filling.
Stiff salmi sauce
Adds moisture and rich flavour so the minced game holds together.
Meat glaze
Binds the filling into a smooth paste and adds concentrated savoury depth.
Large milk rolls
Forms the bread casing; buttering it lightly keeps the slices from soaking up the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the bread and helps it brown slightly.

The step that matters

Incorporate the meat glaze. The glaze must be fully dissolved before it is mixed in, otherwise it sets in lumps. Adding enough to bind without making the paste too loose gives a smooth, spreadable filling that holds between the bread slices.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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