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Galantine of Fowl

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Galantine of Fowl

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Flatten the carcass of the fowl with a cutlet bat.

  2. Make a forcemeat by mixing bread crumbs, bacon, lime rind, thyme, marjoram, spiced pepper, salt, parsley, and eggs in a basin.

  3. Trim the meat from the carcass to create a level foundation.

  4. Slice the picnic tongue, separating fat from lean, and keep them handy.

  5. Mince the liver, gizzard, and heart together with spiced pepper.

  6. Spread a layer of forcemeat on the fowl, followed by a layer of tongue slices, then the meat from the fowl, and another layer of forcemeat.

  7. Add the minced liver mixture and place the block of tongue on top.

  8. Fold the carcass over the layers and sew it up securely with twine.

  9. Wrap in a clean cloth and tie it up with cross strings.

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. Thyme + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Marjoram + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Lime + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Lime + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, thyme, marjoram, pepper, parsley, egg, liver):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limethe original
  3. Red currantfits less well
  4. Orangefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, thyme, marjoram, pepper, parsley, egg, liver. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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