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Fritot of Pigs’ Feet a LA Victor

This recipe uses raw egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Fritot of Pigs’ Feet a LA Victor

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the pigs' feet in water for 3.5 to 4 hours until tender.

  2. Remove the feet, let them cool slightly, and take out all the bones.

  3. Lay the feet open flat and sprinkle with coralline pepper, eschalot, mushrooms, thyme, bay leaf, and parsley.

  4. Place the feet between two dishes, weigh them down, and let cool completely.

  5. Cut the feet into strips about 2 inches long and 1 inch wide.

  6. Mask each strip with the prepared puree, wrap in pork caul, dust with flour.

  7. Dip in beaten egg, then coat with breadcrumbs, pressing crumbs onto the egg.

  8. Fry in clean boiling fat until crisp and brown.

  9. Serve hot on a dish with fried parsley.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Mushroom + porktop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

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 (pepper, mushroom, thyme, pork, flour, egg):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Sagefits about as well
  4. Rosemaryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, mushroom, thyme, pork, flour, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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