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Croustade of Bread, Garnished with Calves-tails, a LA Roulette

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Croustade of Bread, Garnished with Calves-tails, a LA Roulette

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the calves' tails with the skin on, then cut them into joints.

  2. Parboil the joints in water for 5 minutes, then immerse in cold water.

  3. Drain the tails on a napkin, then place them in a stewpan with carrot, onion, parsley, cloves, mace, and peppercorns.

  4. Moisten with broth or water, adding salt if using water, and boil gently for about 1 hour.

  5. Once cooked, drain the tails again and trim them neatly.

  6. Arrange the tails in the croustade in a pyramidal form.

  7. Pour over a rich sauce containing the button mushrooms.

  8. Garnish the inner edge of the croustade with fluted scallops of red tongue.

  9. Glaze the black truffle and place it on top before serving.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, onion, parsley, clove, mushroom, truffle):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, onion, parsley, clove, mushroom, truffle. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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