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Why it works: Nutmeg and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,557 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sift the hash through a sieve into a clean stewpan.

  2. Flour the meat and add it to the stewpan with mushrooms, pickle, catchup, truffles, and morels.

  3. Stir together for a few minutes.

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

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

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

  7. Dip twenty oysters in egg yolk and fry them.

  8. Toast slices of bacon and fry a few forcemeat balls.

  9. Pour the hash into a hot dish, then layer on the toasted bread and top with forcemeat balls.

  10. Garnish with fried oysters, fried brains, and lemon, then surround with bacon.

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.

Explore the science

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. Nutmeg + macetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, flour, mushroom, truffle, butter, lemon, nutmeg):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, flour, mushroom, truffle, butter, lemon, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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