Why it works: Truffle and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Stewed Stuffed Fowls a LA G-odard
Ingredients
Directions
Clean and prepare the Fowls.
Stuff them with forcemeat and truss them.
Place them in a saucepan of white stock and boil until tender.
Put a croustade of fried bread in the center of a dish.
Untruss the Fowls and place one at each end of the dish, leaning against the croustade.
Garnish with truffles, cocks’ combs, and button mushrooms.
Glaze the truffles and wash the cocks’ combs and mushrooms with white sauce reduced with mushroom liquor.
Decorate the croustade with three attelettes, truffles, mushrooms, and a cock’s comb, and serve.
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.
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Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,900 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
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Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,536 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Bread + truffletop 16% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together531 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Mushroom + saucetop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together4,480 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Bread + saucetop 22% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together4,934 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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