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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and truffle are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,900 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Directions

  1. Cut the noix lengthwise into 4-5 pieces, each about ½ inch thick.

  2. Beat the pieces with a hatchet blade and then with the back of a knife to cut the fibers.

  3. Roll quenelles in three pieces of noix to form rolls and cover with a thin layer of farce.

  4. Cut remaining noix slices into 2-finger wide pieces, lard them, and attach to the ends of the rolls with stitches.

  5. Finely chop a small truffle and pistachios, and powder the truffle without touching the larded parts.

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. Mushroom + truffletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,900 recipes

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

  2. Veal + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together815 recipes

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

  3. Veal + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,446 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Onion + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,619 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, parsley, onion, clove, mushroom, truffle):

  1. Peasbetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Pistachiothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, parsley, onion, clove, mushroom, truffle. 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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