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A simple macaroni dish topped with Parmesan cheese, optionally served with beef gravy or truffle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Parmesan cheese and truffle work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 140 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Macaroni

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the macaroni in water for 20 to 25 minutes until tender.

  2. Layer the grated Parmesan cheese over the cooked macaroni to mix thoroughly.

  3. Serve hot with additional grated cheese on the table for each person.

  4. If desired, serve with mustard or beef gravy with a stewed truffle for added flavor.

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. Parmesan cheese + truffletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Beef + truffletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).

  3. Parmesan cheese + beeftop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together726 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Provides the starchy body of the dish, absorbing flavor and holding the cheese.
Parmesan cheese
Adds salty, savory flavor and melts slightly into the hot pasta for coating.

“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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