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Canapes a LA Turbigo

A canapé of minced prawns, celery, pickles, truffles, and mayonnaise, topped with aspic and egg white strips.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Fennel and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 134 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Canapes a LA Turbigo

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rolls

  1. Cut each roll in half and scoop out the crumb. Set aside to dry.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine minced prawns, celery, pickles, and truffles.

  2. Add stiff mayonnaise sauce, parsley, fennel, tarragon, and shallot. Stir gently. Mix in tomato puree and mustard.

Assemble and serve

  1. Fill the prepared rolls with the mixture.

  2. Top each with a layer of aspic or savoury jelly.

  3. Garnish with strips of hard-boiled egg white, truffles, and parsley.

  4. Serve on small round dishes.

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. Fennel + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Tarragon + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Parsley + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

What each ingredient does

Prawns
Provide the main savoury filling and bulk of the canapé.
Stiff mayonnaise sauce
Binds the filling and adds richness and moisture.
Dinner rolls
Act as the crisp, hollowed base that holds the filling.
Aspic or savoury jelly
Sets on top to seal the filling and add a glossy finish.
Tomato puree
Adds concentrated savoury flavour and a touch of acidity.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, truffle, sauce, parsley, fennel, tarragon, shallot):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, truffle, sauce, parsley, fennel, tarragon, shallot. 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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