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Forcemeat for Galantine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pistachio and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 120 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Forcemeat for Galantine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix equal parts fat and lean meat to create forcemeat.

  2. Layer cooked tongue and optional game or fowl on the forcemeat.

  3. Add blanched pistachio kernels and optional mushrooms.

  4. Press another layer of forcemeat on top and roll tightly in skin.

  5. Wrap in cloth and bind with tape.

  6. Boil in weak stock or salted water with onion, cloves, fat, and bacon bones for 3-4 hours.

  7. Cool in the cooking liquid, then press between two dishes with a heavy weight for 24 hours.

  8. Remove the cloth, trim the ends, and glaze.

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. Pistachio + clovetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together120 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,663 recipes

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

  4. Meat + rabbittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together315 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Pistachio + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together202 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, rabbit, mushroom, onion, clove):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Pistachiothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, rabbit, mushroom, onion, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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