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Galantine of Fowl

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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. Remove the skin from the fowl carefully and sew it up to keep it whole.

  2. Cut off the meat from the pinions and legs, removing sinew, and flatten the carcass with a cutlet bat.

  3. Mix the bread crumbs, bacon, lime rind, thyme, marjoram, spiced pepper, salt, parsley, and eggs in a basin to make the forcemeat.

  4. Prepare the picnic tongue by cutting a solid piece for the center and slicing the remainder into fat and lean pieces.

  5. Trim the meat from the carcass of the fowl to the skin and keep the detached meat with the wings and legs.

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

  7. Spread a layer of forcemeat over the fowl, followed by a layer of tongue slices, then the fowl meat, another layer of forcemeat, and finally the minced liver.

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, meat):

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

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

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