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To Fricassee Beef Palates

A fricassee made from beef palates simmered in wine and cream with cucumbers and onions.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,308 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

To Fricassee Beef Palates

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the palates

  1. Soak and clean the beef palates.

  2. Boil them in enough cold water to barely cover, adding salt, sugar, white pepper, garlic, parsley, and white wine.

  3. Simmer for 3 hours, then remove the palates and skin them.

  4. Cut the palates into small round slices.

  5. Strain the boiling liquid and set aside.

Make the sauce

  1. In a stewpan, rub flour into butter, stirring as it melts.

  2. Gradually add cream and the reserved boiling liquid.

  3. Peel and slice cucumbers, removing seeds, and add to the sauce with boiled onions, salt, Cayenne, and grated nutmeg.

  4. Boil the sauce for 15 minutes, then add the palate slices and simmer for another 15 minutes.

  5. Remove the palates, add lemon juice to the sauce, and pour it over the fricassee.

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. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

  2. Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. White wine + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef palates
Provide the main meat, which becomes tender through long slow simmering.
Butter
Carries flavour and enriches the sauce with fat for a smooth mouthfeel.
Flour
Thickens the sauce when cooked with butter into a roux.
Cream
Adds richness and body, giving the sauce a smooth, creamy texture.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma to the cooking liquid that flavours the palates.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich cream sauce.

The step that matters

Boiling the sauce before adding the palates. Boiling the cream-based sauce for 15 minutes thickens it and cooks off raw flour taste from the roux. Adding cream and lemon juice needs care, since prolonged strong boiling can cause cream to separate and reduce too far.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sugar, clove, garlic, parsley, white wine, butter):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, sugar, clove, garlic, parsley, white wine, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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