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Salmi of Tame Duck

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and watercress work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 983 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salmi of Tame Duck

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the giblets separately.

  2. Chop the gizzards and mash the liver.

  3. Once the duck is cooked, remove it from the pan to a hot dish.

  4. Remove any strings and skewers.

  5. Place the pan on the stove, add a little boiling water, and stir.

  6. Blend the corn-starch with a little cold water and stir it into the boiling gravy.

  7. Add the giblets, season with salt and pepper, and boil for 3 minutes.

  8. Serve the sauce in a sauce-boat and garnish the duck with watercress.

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. Pepper + watercresstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Corn + appletop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together330 recipes

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

  4. Corn + watercresstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Watercress + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together295 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, pepper, watercress, sauce):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, pepper, watercress, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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