Why it works: Sauce and wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,936 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Game, Salmi of
Ingredients
Directions
Roast the game birds until partially cooked.
Prepare the Salmi sauce as per the recipe.
Neatly divide the meat, removing skin and gristle.
Smash and pound the bones and trimmings to enhance flavor.
Add the bones to the sauce and simmer to extract flavor.
Heat the game in the sauce slowly until just before boiling.
Adjust the sauce with wine according to taste.
Serve garnished with croutons or game quenelles.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Sauce + winetop 32% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,936 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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