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Quenelles De Saumon a LA Royale

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Crab and lobster work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 196 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Quenelles De Saumon a LA Royale

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the flesh from a large crab and flake it, reserving some for garnish.

  2. Pound the crab meat until smooth, then mix in ½ cup of bechamel sauce.

  3. Season with salt, pepper, and aromatic spice, then rub through a sieve.

  4. Incorporate ¼ cup of stiff aspic and fill small savarin molds that have been coated with aspic and decorated with truffle strips or pimiento.

  5. Chill the molds on ice for about two hours, then turn them out onto small round dishes.

  6. Fill the centers with the reserved flaked crab and decorate with lobster coral or chopped pistachios.

  7. Serve with a sauce made of mayonnaise, whipped cream, a little French mustard, and grated horseradish, keeping the sauce chilled until serving.

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. Crab + lobstertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together196 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  2. Sauce + lobstertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lobster + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,050 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, crab, sauce, pepper, truffle, lobster, cream):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Horseradishfits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, crab, sauce, pepper, truffle, lobster, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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