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Canard En Chemise [Rolled Braised Duck]

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Liver and orange work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 64 recipes. Both carry 2-phenylacetic acid, which smells honey-like. The science ↓

Canard En Chemise [Rolled Braised Duck]

Oven, in the book's wordsA fairly hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bone the duck and split it open.

  2. Spread the seasoned liver farce inside.

  3. Roll it up like a galantine and tie it in a cloth.

  4. Cook in rich stock for 40 to 50 minutes, depending on size.

  5. Remove the cloth and braise in the oven for another 10 minutes.

  6. Cut the duck into slices and serve with orange sauce or Rouennaise sauce.

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. Liver + orangetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-phenylacetic acid (honey-like).

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