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Pork, Galantine of

A pork galantine prepared by rolling seasoned pork with gherkins, braising in stock, then glazing and serving.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Pork, Galantine of

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the roll

  1. Lay the meat skin side down on a surface and season well with pepper.

  2. Cover the meat with thin slices of gherkin.

  3. Roll the meat tightly and tie it with strong twine, securing it in a cloth.

Cook

  1. Place the roll in a stewpan with enough hot stock or water and vegetables to cover it.

  2. Cook gently for 1.5 to 3 hours.

Press and serve

  1. Press the roll between two dishes until cold, then remove the cloth.

  2. Brush the roll with glaze and serve garnished with parsley.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Turnip + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Belly of young pork
Provides the meat and fat that form the body of the galantine and keep it moist as it cooks.
Gherkins
Add a sharp, acidic contrast that cuts through the richness of the pork.
Onions
Add savoury sweetness and aroma to the cooking liquid that flavours the meat.
Glaze
Adds a glossy finish and extra savoury flavour to the outside of the chilled roll.

The step that matters

Cooking gently for 1.5 to 3 hours. Simmering rather than boiling keeps the liquid just below a rolling boil, so the connective tissue in the pork softens slowly without the meat toughening or breaking apart.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, carrot, turnip, thyme, parsley):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, carrot, turnip, thyme, parsley. 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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