Why it works: Fish and truffle work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 137 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Turtle Soup Maigre
Ingredients
Directions
Stew the turtle flesh in vegetable or fish stock until the jelly is sufficiently clear for soup.
Season with a larger proportion of curry powder and add a few truffles to enhance the flavor.
Ensure the turtle is prepared without any acid that boiling cannot remove.
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.
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Fish + truffletop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together137 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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