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Galantines of Legs of Fowls, a LA Financiers

A braised galantine made from fowl legs stuffed with force‑meat and herbs, cooked with vegetables and broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 ↓

Galantines of Legs of Fowls, a LA Financiers

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the legs

  1. Carve the legs from the fowl, leaving skin from the back attached.

  2. Bone the legs without dividing them.

  3. Trim the feet, leaving part of the leg bones.

  4. Scald the feet.

  5. Carefully remove the outer skin without tearing.

Stuff and arrange

  1. Stuff the legs with force-meat mixed with fine herbs.

  2. Shape the stuffed legs into a purse.

  3. Lard the plump part of the thighs closely.

  4. In a deep pan, layer sliced carrot, onion, celery, and a faggot of parsley.

  5. Place the larded legs on top.

Braise

  1. Moisten the larded legs with consomme or broth.

  2. Cover the pan with buttered paper and a lid with live charcoal embers.

  3. Braise gently for about 30 minutes.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Legs of fowls
Forms the main meat, which becomes tender through slow braising.
Force-meat
Fills the boned legs and helps keep the meat moist while it cooks.
Fat bacon
Adds fat that melts over the thighs, keeping them moist and richly flavoured.
Sliced carrot, onion and celery
Aromatic base that flavours the braising liquid as it cooks.
Consomme or broth
Provides the moist liquid that braises the legs gently.
Fine herbs
Adds aroma to the force-meat stuffing.

The step that matters

Braise gently for about 30 minutes. A gentle simmer lets the connective tissue in the legs break down slowly, giving tender meat. Vigorous boiling toughens the meat and can dry out the stuffing.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, meat, carrot, celery, parsley):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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