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Marinade Froide Et Marinade Quite

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Why it works: Shallot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Marinade Froide Et Marinade Quite

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a sauté pan, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the cutlets and cook until nicely browned, seasoning with salt and pepper.

  3. Toss the pan and turn the cutlets frequently.

  4. Add the mushrooms, shallot, and parsley, continuing to toss and turn the cutlets.

  5. Sprinkle the flour over the cutlets and cook until very brown, but not burnt.

  6. Gradually pour in the claret and stock, tossing the cutlets to combine.

  7. Cook until the gravy thickens, then serve in a hot dish.

  8. If the gravy is too thin, reduce it on the stove.

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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Shallot + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, mushroom, shallot, flour):

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, mushroom, shallot, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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