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Timbale of Macaroni

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Timbale of Macaroni

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Make a pound of short paste and 2 ounces of nouilles paste.

  2. Butter the inside of a round or oval mold.

  3. Roll out the nouilles paste thinly and cut out decorative shapes.

  4. Arrange the shapes on the bottom and sides of the mold.

  5. Moisten the decorations with a brush dipped in water.

  6. Line the mold with the short paste, leaving it an inch above the edge.

  7. Fill the mold with bran or flour mixed with chopped suet.

  8. Wet the edge and place a circular piece of rolled-out paste on top.

  9. Press the edges together and twist the upper ridge inward.

  10. Make a small hole in the center for ventilation.

  11. Bake the timbale at 400°F (200°C) for about 45 minutes.

  12. Carefully empty the mold and clean it.

  13. Fill the timbale with Milanese ragout.

  14. Turn it out onto a dish and glaze it with thin light-colored glaze.

  15. Pour white sauce around the base and serve.

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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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