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Quails, Stuffed

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Quail and pork work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 308 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Quails, Stuffed

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Bone the quails and stuff them with the liver farce, shaping them well.

  2. Wrap each quail in a band of buttered paper.

  3. Heat the butter in a sauté pan, baste the quails, and roast in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 15 to 20 minutes, basting frequently.

  4. Wash the caul in salt water, dry it, and cut into pieces large enough to wrap half a quail.

  5. Split the quails in half with a hot wet knife, wrap each half in caul, brush with egg white, and sprinkle one half with ham and the other with truffle.

  6. Reheat the butter in the sauté pan, return the quails, cover with buttered paper, and cook gently in the oven for 30 minutes.

  7. Serve on a potato border, filling the center with asparagus points, peas, flageolets, or spinach puree, and pour hot Madeira sauce around.

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. Quail + porktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together308 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Liver + porktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,606 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  3. Truffle + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Truffle + hamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together516 recipes

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

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