Why it works: Ham and truffle work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 516 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Cold Raised Pies
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Boil and trim the ham and tongues.
Season and garnish the inside of the game with bacon, tongue, and truffles.
Sew them up with a needle and twine to prevent the filling from escaping.
Line two braising pans with bacon, arrange the birds neatly, and cover with bacon and buttered paper.
Bake in a slow oven at 300°F (150°C) for about 4 hours, then cool.
Prepare aspic jelly with the carcasses, calves' feet, and vegetables, clarifying it afterward.
Make hot-water paste and line the inside of the pie with bacon and force-meat.
Layer the birds starting with the goose at the bottom, filling cavities with force-meat.
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.
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Ham + truffletop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together516 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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