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Mayonnaise of Cold Game, Etc

A cold dish of mayonnaise mixed with roasted game meats and garnished with hard‑boiled eggs, anchovy slices, pickled gherkins, capers, and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 824 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Mayonnaise of Cold Game, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Remove the skin from the cold roasted meat and cut it into pieces, ensuring there are no bones.

  2. In a bowl, combine the meat with salt, pepper, oil, and chopped herbs. Stir the mixture well and place it in a serving dish.

Assemble and decorate

  1. Create a circle of jelly around the edge of the dish.

  2. Pour mayonnaise sauce over the meat and decorate with hard-boiled eggs, anchovy slices, pickled gherkins, capers, and branches of tarragon and chervil.

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. Tarragon + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together824 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Capers + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Capers + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together379 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sauce + anchovytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pepper + tarragontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold roasted meat
Forms the main body of the dish and supplies its savory flavor.
Mayonnaise sauce
Adds richness and moisture, binding the meat with a creamy coating.
Jelly
Sets into a glossy edge that adds moisture and a gel-like contrast.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add a firm, mild texture and creamy richness as a garnish.

“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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