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Galantine of Capon

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and liver work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 190 recipes. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Galantine of Capon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean the bird and save the liver, heart, and gizzard.

  2. Lay the bird breast down on a board and bone it carefully.

  3. Sever the pinions, legs, and neck, but keep the skin intact and sew it up.

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. Turkey + livertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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