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A Salmi of Bustard

A stew of bustard with onions, parsley, peach leaves, peppercorns, and wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Arrowroot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 137 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

A Salmi of Bustard

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Dust the sliced bustard with arrowroot or flour and place in a stewpan.

  2. Combine the trimmings, bones, onions, parsley, peach leaves, and peppercorns in another stewpan. Cover the mixture with water.

  3. Boil for 30 minutes.

  4. Strain the gravy.

Make the stew

  1. Return the gravy to the stewpan. Add the wine.

  2. Reduce the gravy to the desired quantity.

  3. Add the sliced bustard. Color with browning.

  4. Bring to a boil.

  5. Serve with toasted bread.

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. Arrowroot + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Arrowroot + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Clove + peachtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 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

Bustard
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender as it simmers in the gravy.
Arrowroot or flour
Coats the sliced meat, helping it brown and thickening the gravy slightly.
Wine
Adds acidity and aroma to the gravy as it reduces.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (arrowroot, onion, clove, parsley, white wine, bread):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against arrowroot, onion, clove, parsley, white wine, bread. 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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