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Pigeons A-LA-braze

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and truffle work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 815 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Truss the pigeons and lay slices of bacon, veal, and onions at the bottom of a stewpan.

  2. Season the pigeons with pepper, coarse sea salt, beaten spice, and sweet herbs, then place them in the stewpan.

  3. Add more slices of veal and bacon on top of the pigeons and cover the stewpan.

  4. Stew gently until cooked through.

  5. Make a ragout with sweetbreads, truffles, morels, and champignons, adding a ladle of gravy and a little cullis.

  6. Combine the ragout with the pigeons in the stewpan and cook together.

  7. Serve the pigeons on a dish and pour the ragout over them.

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. Veal + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together815 recipes

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

  2. Onion + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,463 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Veal + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Veal + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Onion + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together887 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pepper, truffle):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, truffle. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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