Name: Partridge, Roast
Ingredients: 1 partridge; Bread Sauce (see recipe No. 14); gravy from trimmings

Why it works: Bread and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,934 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Partridge, Roast

Ingredients

1 partridge
Bread Sauce (see recipe No. 14)
gravy from trimmings

Directions

Prepare

Clean, trim, and truss the partridge as you would a chicken.

Roast and serve

Roast the partridge for 25 minutes.
Serve with Bread Sauce and gravy made from the trimmings.

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.

Bread + saucetop 22% of all pairs

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Cooked together4,934 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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What each ingredient does

Partridge: Is the main protein, cooked by roasting until done through and browned on the outside.
Bread sauce: Serves as the accompanying sauce, adding moisture and a mild, creamy contrast to the lean meat.
Gravy from trimmings: Adds moisture and savoury flavour to the lean roasted bird.

“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.