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Truffes a LA Serviette

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 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,973 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Directions

  1. Cover the bottom of a stewpan with slices of fat bacon.

  2. Lay in the truffles and season with lemon, thyme, bay leaf, cloves, coarse sea salt, and black pepper.

  3. Cover with more slices of bacon, add a little butter, and moisten with white wine.

  4. Cook for 20 to 30 minutes, then remove from heat and leave in the cooking liquid until ready to serve.

  5. Drain and serve in a neatly folded napkin.

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. Lemon + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,973 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Thyme + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

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

  4. Thyme + clovetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,210 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Clove + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (truffle, lemon, thyme, pepper, butter, white wine):

  1. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Sagebetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against truffle, lemon, thyme, pepper, butter, white wine. 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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