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Small puff pastry turnovers filled with minced fowl or veal seasoned with garlic, lemon, spices, and gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Rissoles

Why it works: Garlic and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,893 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Rissoles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix minced fowl or veal with garlic, lemon peel, white pepper, salt, mace, lemon juice, and enough gravy to moisten.

Assemble the rissoles

  1. Cut puff pastry into rounds using a 3-inch cutter.

  2. Place some of the mixture on one pastry round, wet the edges, and top with another round.

  3. Press the edges gently to seal, brush with beaten egg, and sprinkle with bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in boiling clarified beef dripping until light brown.

  2. Drain on a sieve before serving in a 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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Explore the science

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. Garlic + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,893 recipes

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

  2. White pepper + macetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,695 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Veal + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Bread + beeftop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Forms the flaky, crisp outer shell that encloses the filling.
Minced fowl or veal
Provides the main savoury filling, bound by the moistening gravy.
Good gravy
Moistens the minced meat so the filling stays juicy rather than dry.
Egg
Brushed on as a wash so the pastry browns evenly and takes on a glossy colour.
Bread crumbs
Coat the outside to add a crisp, golden crust when fried.

The step that matters

Sealing the edges. If the pastry edges are not wetted and pressed firmly, they can open in the hot fat and let the filling leak out and soak the dripping.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, garlic, lemon, white pepper, egg, bread, beef):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, garlic, lemon, white pepper, egg, bread, beef. 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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