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Purde of Pheasant, with Poached Eggs

Roasted pheasant served with poached eggs and melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Purde of Pheasant, with Poached Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and roast

  1. Clean and season the pheasant with salt and pepper.

  2. Roast the pheasant until fully cooked.

Poach and serve

  1. Bring water to a gentle simmer in a separate pot and poach the eggs until the whites are set.

  2. Serve the roasted pheasant with the poached eggs on top, drizzled with melted butter.

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. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Pheasant + peppertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together462 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  3. Pheasant + buttertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together511 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Pheasant + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Pheasant
Provides the main protein, which firms and turns opaque as it cooks through.
Eggs
Whites set into a tender coating over the pheasant, adding richness and body.
Butter
Adds fat and a rich flavour when melted over the dish, keeping the meat moist on the surface.

The step that matters

Poaching the eggs at a gentle simmer. At a rolling boil the whites scatter and tear, while a gentle simmer lets proteins set slowly around the yolk, keeping the eggs intact and tender.

“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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