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Scalloped Meat, Game, or Fisii

A baked dish of cold meat, bread crumbs, chopped egg, mashed potatoes, and forcemeat served in scallop shells.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Scalloped Meat, Game, or Fisii

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).

Assemble

  1. In a scallop shell or tin patty pan, layer a small quantity of cold meat.

  2. Add bread crumbs, chopped egg, mashed potatoes, or forcemeat to fill up the shell.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in the oven until heated through and golden on top.

  2. Serve in the shells.

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. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

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

  3. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  4. Bread + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold meat
Forms the main filling layer, providing the savoury body of the dish.
Bread crumbs
Adds bulk and a light texture to the filling, helping it hold its shape.
Chopped egg
Binds the filling and sets when heated, giving it a firmer texture.
Mashed potatoes
Adds moisture and softness, and browns on top in the oven.
Forcemeat
Adds richness and a finer, more cohesive texture to the filling.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, bread, egg):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, bread, egg. 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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