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Salpicon for Kromeskys

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and lobster are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,095 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Salpicon for Kromeskys

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine minced poultry and game with tongue or ham.

  2. Mix in yolks of eggs, lemon juice, and veloute sauce.

  3. Add minced truffles or mushrooms for flavor.

  4. For fish salpicon, mince fish and cook briefly with white sauce and spice.

  5. For lobster or prawn salpicon, mince and bind with white sauce and yolks of eggs.

  6. Cut bacon into thin slices, about 1.5 by 2 inches.

  7. Place a teaspoon of salpicon on each bacon slice and roll it up tightly.

  8. Keep the kromeskys cool until ready to fry.

  9. Dip in batter and fry carefully without unrolling.

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. Sauce + lobstertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Fish + salmontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Ham + truffletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together516 recipes

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

  4. Truffle + fishtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together137 recipes

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

  5. Salmon + lobstertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

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