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Burdwan Stew

A stew of fowl or duck with gravy, ale, white wine, lemon juice, soy sauce, cayenne pepper, mushroom ketchup, lemon pickle, cucumber vinegar, corach escavecke.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Burdwan Stew

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the joints of the cold fowl or duck into a stewpan.

  2. Add the gravy, ale, white wine, lemon juice, soy sauce, cayenne pepper, mushroom ketchup, lemon pickle, cucumber vinegar, and corach escavecke.

  3. Heat all ingredients thoroughly before serving.

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 + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. White wine + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Cucumber + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  5. Lemon + cucumbertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Fowl or duck
Provides the meat that becomes tender as it simmers in the liquid.
Gravy
Supplies the main liquid, carrying moisture and savoury body into the stew.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sauce and balances the richness of the meat.
Soy sauce
Contributes salty, savoury depth and some colour to the sauce.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, sauce, pepper, mushroom, ketchup, cucumber, vinegar):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Plumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, sauce, pepper, mushroom, ketchup, cucumber, vinegar. 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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