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Salmi De Chasseur

Roasted partridges served with a sauce of oil, red wine, lemon zest, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Salmi De Chasseur

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roast the partridges as you would for other salmis.

  2. In a saucepan, combine oil, red wine, salt, pepper, lemon zest, and lemon juice.

  3. Toss the roasted partridges in the sauce 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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Red wine + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Red wine + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together779 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Red wine
Adds acidity and deep flavour to the sauce.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich sauce.
Lemon zest
Adds aromatic oils from the peel for fresh citrus aroma.
Oil
Carries flavour and adds fat to the sauce for a smoother mouthfeel.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (red wine, pepper):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Grapefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against red wine, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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