Name: Another Famous Garbure
Ingredients: 1 old partridge; 50 roasted chestnuts; bits of bread

Why it works: Chestnut and bread work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 191 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Another Famous Garbure

Ingredients

1 old partridge
50 roasted chestnuts
bits of bread

Directions

Prepare the partridge

Roast the partridge until cooked.
Remove the bones and skin from the partridge.
Pound the partridge flesh in a mortar.

Make the purée

Drain the roasted chestnuts and add them to the mortar.
Pound and mix the partridge and chestnuts well together.
Press the mixture through a sieve.

Finish with bread

Stew the bits of bread and mix them with the remaining mixture.

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.

Chestnut + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together191 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

Partridge: Provides the main meat and savoury flavour of the dish.
Roasted chestnuts: Pounded into the meat to add body, starch and a mild sweetness.
Bread: Stewed bits soak up liquid and thicken the mixture, giving it a softer body.

“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.