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Galantines

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and pistachio match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 693 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Galantines

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Carefully bone the piece of meat and season the inside with coarse sea salt.

  2. Fill the meat with layers of forcemeat, tongue, sausage, bacon fat, truffles, and other ingredients.

  3. Sew the meat up, ensuring it retains its original form, and fasten it securely in a cloth.

  4. Cook it for several hours in a rich consommé.

  5. Let it cool in the cooking liquid, which should then be reduced and clarified.

  6. Use the clarified liquid in jelly form as a decoration for the galantine.

  7. Serve the galantine cold on a white napkin.

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. Almond + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together693 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Chestnut + pistachiotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Almond + chestnuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Almond + nutstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together394 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, truffle, egg, oyster, almond, chestnut, pistachio):

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, truffle, egg, oyster, almond, chestnut, pistachio. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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