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A French Pie

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and truffle work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 815 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

A French Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Lay the puff pastry round on the edge of a pie dish.

  3. Fill the dish with veal slices, jointed rabbits or chickens, forcemeat balls, sweetbreads, artichoke bottoms, and truffles.

  4. Boil the calf's feet until tender, then chop the meat.

  5. Chop the mutton suet and apples separately.

  6. Combine all ingredients in the pie dish and cover with another layer of puff pastry if desired.

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. Veal + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together815 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Artichoke + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together240 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Rabbit + artichoketop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Veal + muttontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,394 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  5. Rabbit + muttontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-pentylpyridine (fat).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, rabbit, artichoke, truffle, mutton):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Red currantfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, rabbit, artichoke, truffle, mutton. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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