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A Marinade for Collared Meats

A thin oatmeal-based sauce seasoned with salt, wine, and pepper, boiled and cooled before adding to collared meats.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and white pepper work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 407 recipes. Both carry methyl butyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

A Marinade for Collared Meats

Ingredients

Directions

Make the marinade

  1. Make thin water-gruel by cooking oatmeal in water.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt.

  3. Add white wine and white pepper.

  4. Boil the mixture for 30 minutes.

Cool and use

  1. Let it cool completely before adding the collar.

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. White wine + white peppertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together407 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl butyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Thickens the water into a gruel that gives the marinade body and clings to the meat.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma to the marinade, helping flavour penetrate the meat.

The step that matters

Let it cool completely before adding the collar. Adding meat to a hot mixture can partly cook its surface and change the texture, and it can warm the meat into the food-safety danger zone. Cooling first keeps the meat cold and the marinade's texture intact.

“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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