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Pie Raised Hop, Russian

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Why it works: Parsley and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Pie Raised Hop, Russian

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the salmon and liver into scallops.

  2. Simmer the salmon and liver separately in butter with parsley, mushrooms, truffles, shallots, salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

  3. Mince the yolks of the hard-boiled eggs.

  4. Make a raised crust as usual.

  5. Layer cold rice boiled in chicken broth in the crust.

  6. Add a layer of salmon scallops, then a layer of minced egg, followed by a layer of liver.

  7. Repeat the layers until the pie is full.

  8. Pour in the butter and herbs, cover with rice, and finish the pie.

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 + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Mushroom + shallottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, liver, butter, mushroom, truffle, shallot, pepper):

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, liver, butter, mushroom, truffle, shallot, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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