Why it works: Chervil and coriander work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 34 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Prepare the filling
Mince the fry, fat, pork, onions, garlic, parsley, chervil, and sage finely.
Boil the bread crumbs in milk until pulpy.
Combine the minced mixture with the bread pulp, egg yolks, and egg whites. Season with salt, sugar, white pepper, mustard, nutmeg, mace, lemon rind, and coriander.
Add the baked flour and mix well.
Stuff and cook
Stuff the mixture into cleaned pig's skins, tie both ends, and form into 6-inch puddings.
Place in warm water, bring to a boil, then simmer gently for 2 hours.
Hang in a cool place until needed.
Serve
Before serving, broil or roast for 25 minutes and serve hot on a napkin.
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.
Explore the science
The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Chervil + coriandertop 8% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together34 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together29,030 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Parsley + sagetop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,445 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Parsley + coriandertop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,062 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
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Garlic + coriandertop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together6,477 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Egg yolks and whites bind the minced filling and help it set when cooked.
- Bread crumbs
- Milk-soaked bread pulp adds moisture and a soft, tender texture to the filling.
- Pork
- Lean pork and fat provide the meaty body and richness of the pudding.
- Inside fat
- Fat keeps the filling moist and tender as it cooks.
- Baked flour
- Baked flour adds body and helps hold the filling together.
The step that matters
Simmering gently for 2 hours. Boiling vigorously can burst the skins and make the egg-based filling tough or porous. A gentle simmer lets the filling set evenly and stay tender.
Flavor stand-ins for the chervil
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, onion, garlic, parsley, sage, bread, milk):
- Thymebetter flavor fit
- Marjorambetter flavor fit
- Pepperbetter flavor fit
- Chervilthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, garlic, parsley, sage, bread, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
“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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