Why it works: Chestnut and sauce work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 255 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Bkown Chestnut Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Substitute rich brown gravy for veal stock.
Omit the lemon rind and cream.
Increase the seasonings to taste.
Pass the chestnuts through a sieve.
Mix the sieved chestnuts with a few tablespoons of Espagnole sauce or highly flavored gravy.
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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Chestnut + saucetop 18% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together255 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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