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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and truffle are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,900 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Boil the vermicelli until tender.

  2. In a small potting pan or jar, layer the vermicelli, ham, hard-boiled egg yolks, veal, and finely pounded forcemeat.

  3. Cover the pan and bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 1 to 2 hours.

  4. Once baked, turn out onto a serving dish.

  5. Pour rich brown gravy over the dish and garnish with mushrooms, cut lemon, truffles, or morels.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mushroom + truffletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,900 recipes

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

  2. Veal + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together815 recipes

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

  3. Ham + truffletop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together516 recipes

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

  4. Veal + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,446 recipes

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

  5. Ham + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,486 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

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