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Pork Kidneys Au Ain De Champagne

A sautéed pork kidney dish simmered in butter, herbs, onions, and white wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and shallot 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 ↓

Pork Kidneys Au Ain De Champagne

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mince the pork kidneys and place them in a stewpan over medium heat.

  2. Add the butter, salt, pepper, parsley, onions, and shallots, and stir continuously to prevent sticking.

  3. Once the sauce reduces, add a little flour and stir to combine.

  4. Pour in the white wine and warm the mixture without boiling.

  5. Serve hot.

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Onion + shallottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,431 recipes

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

  5. Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork kidneys
Form the main body of the dish, providing the meaty base for the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the reduced sauce so it clings to the kidneys.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma, lifting the richness of the butter and pork.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour through the sauce.

The step that matters

Warming the wine without boiling. Boiling after the wine goes in can toughen the kidneys and drive off the wine's delicate aroma, so keep the mixture just warm.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, butter, pepper, parsley, shallot, flour, white wine):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

“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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