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Fowl Marinaded

A fowl stuffed with sweetbread, oysters, mushrooms, anchovy, and seasonings, then roasted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,973 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Fowl Marinaded

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Chop the sweetbread, oysters, mushrooms, anchovy, pepper, salt, nutmeg, lemon peel, and thyme together until small.

  2. Mix the chopped ingredients with the egg yolk.

Stuff and roast

  1. Gently lift the skin of the breast of a large fowl from the bone without breaking it.

  2. Stuff the mixture between the skin and the flesh of the fowl.

  3. Place some oysters inside the body of the fowl.

  4. Cover the breast with paper and roast it.

Serve

  1. Make good gravy and garnish with lemon.

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. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  3. Nutmeg + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Mushroom + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,557 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal sweetbread
Forms the savoury, tender body of the stuffing.
Egg yolk
Binds the chopped ingredients together so the stuffing holds its shape.
Oysters
Add a briny, savoury flavour to the stuffing and the body cavity.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy savoury flavour to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Lifting the breast skin without tearing it. The stuffing must sit between the skin and the flesh, so a torn skin lets the filling leak out during roasting and leaves the breast unevenly covered.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, oyster, mushroom, anchovy, pepper, lemon, thyme):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, oyster, mushroom, anchovy, pepper, lemon, thyme. 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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