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Ox Palates is a dish of ox palates simmered with milk, butter, spices, then breaded and broiled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Ox-Palates

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the ox palates in salted water for several hours.

  2. Parboil the soaked palates in salted water and scrape off the skin.

Simmer

  1. In a saucepan, combine the palates, milk, butter, clove, shallot, parsley, thyme, salt, and pepper.

  2. Simmer gently for about an hour.

  3. Remove the palates.

Bake and serve

  1. Cover the palates with beaten egg yolk.

  2. Roll the palates in breadcrumbs.

  3. Broil gently until golden.

  4. Serve on a dish with piquant sauce around them.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  3. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  5. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Ox palates
Provide the main meat, which becomes tender through long gentle simmering in milk.
Milk
Gently cooks the palates and adds richness and a mild, creamy flavour to the dish.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the surface brown during broiling.
Egg yolk (in the method)
Coats the palates so the breadcrumbs adhere and the surface browns golden.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when broiled, adding texture to the outside.

The step that matters

Broil gently until golden. Breadcrumbs and egg yolk brown quickly under direct heat, so watching closely prevents scorching before the coating is evenly golden.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, butter, shallot, parsley, thyme, pepper, sauce):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, shallot, parsley, thyme, pepper, sauce. 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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