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Cha Udfroids in Aspic

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Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cha Udfroids in Aspic

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spoon nearly cold Aspic Jelly down the center of each cutlet and let it set.

  2. Once set, add a little more Aspic Jelly on each side and let it set again.

  3. Repeat until the entire top of the cutlet is covered.

  4. Garnish the dish with Aspic jelly cut into various shapes.

  5. Place vegetables covered with Cream Bechamel Sauce in the center.

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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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