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Game Friandines with Truffles

A pastry turnover filled with game salpicon, mushrooms, truffles, and optional ham, served with sauce Perigueux.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and truffle are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Game Friandines with Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare 1 lb of salpicon using cooked game, tongue, mushrooms, and truffles.

  2. Roll out 1 lb of puff pastry very thin and cut out rounds with a fluted pastry cutter.

  3. Place a small heap of salpicon in the center of half the rounds.

  4. Wet the edges with a brush, cover with the other half, and press gently to seal.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each in beaten egg, then coat with fresh breadcrumbs mixed with chopped ham or truffles.

  2. Fry in clarified butter until golden, then drain on a cloth.

Serve

  1. Arrange in a pyramidal shape and garnish with fried parsley.

  2. Serve with a boat of sauce Perigueux.

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

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

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

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

  5. Ham + truffletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together516 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Forms the flaky, crisp outer casing that encloses the filling.
Cooked game salpicon
Provides the savoury, meaty filling bound inside the turnovers.
Egg
Beaten egg acts as glue so the breadcrumbs adhere to the pastry.
Fresh breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried in clarified butter.

The step that matters

Seal the edges well before coating. If the wet edges are not pressed firmly shut, the filling can leak out during frying and the pastry can open, so the turnovers lose their shape and filling.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, egg, ham, truffle, butter, sauce):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, egg, ham, truffle, butter, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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