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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and truffle 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 ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

  1. Flour the meat and place it in a clean stewpan with the hash.

  2. Add mushrooms, pickle, ketchup, truffles, and morels; stir for a few minutes.

  3. Beat half the brains and stir into the stewpan with a bit of butter rolled in flour.

  4. Beat the remaining brains with lemon peel, nutmeg, beaten mace, thyme, parsley, and egg yolk.

  5. Fry the brains in little cakes in hot dripping.

  6. Dip oysters in egg yolk and fry them.

  7. Toast slices of bacon.

  8. In a hot dish, pour in the hash, layer with toasted bread, and top with forcemeat balls, fried oysters, fried brains, and lemon.

  9. Garnish with bacon and serve.

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. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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