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Savouries in Aspic

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Lobster and shrimp work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 403 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Savouries in Aspic

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook all food items first.

  2. Rinse a small mold with cold water.

  3. Pour a layer of aspic jelly into the mold and let it firm up.

  4. Decorate the firm layer with egg, truffle, chili, or parsley.

  5. Add another layer of aspic jelly over the decoration.

  6. Fill the mold with layers of the cooked food, allowing each layer to firm before adding the next.

  7. Once full and firm, turn out the aspic by dipping the mold in warm water.

  8. Garnish with salad or additional aspic.

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. Lobster + shrimptop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together403 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Shrimp + chickentop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together988 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Shrimp + salmontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together819 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

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

  5. Lobster + salmontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, shrimp, salmon, egg, chicken, truffle):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, shrimp, salmon, egg, chicken, truffle. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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