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Villeroy Sauce

A sauce made from Allemande sauce, truffle essence, and ham essence.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and ham work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 516 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Villeroy Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 1 pint of Allemande Sauce with 2 tablespoons of truffle essence and 2 tablespoons of ham essence in a saucepan.

  2. Reduce the mixture over an open fire, stirring until the sauce thickens enough to coat immersed solids.

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 + hamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together516 recipes

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

  2. Sauce + hamtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,314 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + truffletop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,490 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Allemande sauce
Forms the sauce base that gets reduced and thickened into a coating consistency.
Truffle essence
Adds concentrated earthy, aromatic flavour to the sauce.
Ham essence
Adds savoury, meaty depth to the sauce.

The step that matters

Reducing until the sauce coats the spoon. Reduction evaporates water and concentrates the sauce, thickening it. Stop too early and the sauce stays thin; reduce too long and it becomes too thick, salty and strongly flavoured. Stirring keeps it from scorching on the base of the pan.

“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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