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Truffles with Champagne Wine

Truffles simmered with bacon, herbs, consomme, and Champagne.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Truffles with Champagne Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Trim a stew pan with slices of bacon.

  2. Place the truffles in the stew pan with parsley, green onions, thyme, bay leaves, cloves, and sweet basil.

  3. Moisten with consomme and Champagne, then season with salt and pepper.

  4. If available, add poêle from fowls, both fat and liquid.

  5. Boil gently for one hour, then let cool in the stew pan.

Serve

  1. When ready to serve, warm them again and drain in a clean towel.

  2. Serve in a beautiful white napkin to contrast with the black truffles.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Thyme + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  3. Parsley + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Best truffles
Main ingredient whose earthy aroma flavours the cooking liquid.
Slices of bacon
Lines the pan and adds savoury fat that flavours the truffles as they cook.
2 glasses champagne
Acidic liquid that moistens the truffles and carries their aroma during gentle cooking.
1 tablespoon good consomme
Adds savoury meaty depth to the cooking liquid.

The step that matters

Boil gently for one hour. Truffles are delicate, so a hard boil can toughen them and drive off aroma. A gentle simmer keeps them tender while the liquid infuses their flavour.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (truffle, parsley, thyme, clove, basil, champagne, pepper):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against truffle, parsley, thyme, clove, basil, champagne, 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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