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Braised Capon a LA Neapolitaine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Braised Capon a LA Neapolitaine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the breast and thigh bones from the Capon.

  2. Stuff the carcass with chicken quenelle forcemeat, foie gras, and small squares of truffles.

  3. Truss and lard the Capon with bacon fat, then braise it in good stock.

  4. Fifteen minutes before serving, remove it from the pot, drain, and rub it.

  5. Mask the breast with a layer of white forcemeat and decorate with truffles.

  6. Poach the Capon in the oven for a few minutes.

  7. Place the Capon on a layer of fried bread on a large dish.

  8. Garnish with truffles, cocks' combs, pistachio kernels, and seasoned short macaroni.

  9. Flavor the garnish with veloute sauce reduced with mushroom liquor.

  10. Serve additional veloute sauce or Spanish sauce with tomato ketchup in a sauceboat.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  3. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together756 recipes

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

  5. Liver + truffletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

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

Swap the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, liver, truffle, bread, sauce, mushroom):

  1. Peasfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Pistachiothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, liver, truffle, bread, sauce, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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