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An Emince of Fowl, Veal, and Sweetbread

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,523 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

An Emince of Fowl, Veal, and Sweetbread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mince the white part of a cold fowl that has been boiled or roasted.

  2. Heat beshemell sauce in a stewpan.

  3. Add the minced fowl to the hot sauce.

  4. Squeeze in the juice of a lemon and add a few drops of shallot vinegar and a dusting of sugar.

  5. Place the mixture on a dish and arrange the fillets on top.

  6. Garnish with sippets of bread.

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. Lemon + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Shallot + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Shallot + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + shallottop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, shallot, vinegar, sugar, bread):

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Cherryfits about as well
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, shallot, vinegar, sugar, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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