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Truffles Au Naturel

Truffles wrapped in bacon and oiled paper, cooked in hot ashes or oven.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Truffles Au Naturel

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare and cook

  1. Wash and brush the truffles well.

  2. Wrap each truffle in a slice of bacon, then in several folds of oiled paper.

  3. Place them in hot ashes and let them remain for 1 hour.

  4. Alternatively, bake them in a hot oven (400°F / 200°C) wrapped in bacon and paper, but they will require a longer time.

Serve

  1. Remove the paper and bacon, then serve.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Truffles
The main ingredient, whose aroma develops as it gently cooks wrapped in its covering.
Bacon
Adds fat and savory flavor that penetrates the truffle while it cooks in its wrapping.

The step that matters

Wrapping the truffles in paper. Several folds of oiled paper shield the truffles from direct heat and ash, so they steam gently in their own moisture rather than scorching.

“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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