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Pigs’ Pettitoes a LA Sainte-Menehoulde

Pigs’ Pettitoes à la Sainte-Menehould is a stew of pork stomachs, bacon, vegetables, and eggs, served with remoulade sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Pigs’ Pettitoes a LA Sainte-Menehoulde

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and stew

  1. In a stewpan, layer the onion, carrot, peppercorns, parsley, garlic, and bay leaf.

  2. Add a layer of bacon, then a layer of pettitoes, followed by more bacon and pettitoes until all are used.

  3. Pour in enough beef stock to cover, place a round paper on top, cover the pan, and stew gently until well done.

Coat and grill

  1. Once cool, toss the pettitoes in beaten eggs seasoned with salt and pepper.

  2. Coat the pettitoes in breadcrumbs.

  3. Dip the pettitoes in clarified butter and crumble them again.

  4. Grill the pettitoes on a gridiron until golden brown.

  5. Serve with a good remoulade sauce.

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

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

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten eggs bind the breadcrumb coating so it adheres to the pettitoes.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp outer crust that browns when grilled.
Clarified butter
Adds fat that promotes browning and a rich flavour on the grilled coating.
Bacon
Adds fat and savoury flavour as the pettitoes stew.
Beef stock
Provides moisture and savoury depth during the long gentle stew.

The step that matters

Stew gently until well done. Slow, gentle simmering under a cover breaks down the connective tissue in the trotters so they become tender. Rapid boiling can toughen the meat and break the pieces apart.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, carrot, parsley, garlic, beef, egg, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, carrot, parsley, garlic, beef, egg, pepper. 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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