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Ragout a LA Providence

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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. In a stewpan, combine bacon, sausages, mushrooms, chestnuts, quenelles, and truffles.

  2. Moisten with Madeira or other wine and good consomme.

  3. Add cocks' kidneys and combs.

  4. Pour over the clarified sauce etouffade.

  5. Just before serving, add the stoned and blanched olives.

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. Mushroom + winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,509 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

  3. Mushroom + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,057 recipes

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

  4. Wine + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  5. Mushroom + chestnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together431 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 chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, truffle, wine, sauce, olive):

  1. Peasbetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Chestnutthe original
  4. Soybeanabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, truffle, wine, sauce, olive. 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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