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Ragout a LA Financier

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,171 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

The recipe

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Contains: shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Trim the meat into small pieces.

  2. Gently stew the meat in Espagnole sauce until heated through.

  3. Fill each serving dish with the ragout.

  4. Heat in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 1-2 minutes.

  5. Serve immediately.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chicken + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Truffle + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Chicken + rabbittop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together338 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-pentylpyridine (fat).

  4. Chicken + truffletop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together756 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Liver + truffletop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

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

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