Why it works: Chervil and coriander work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 34 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Prepare the filling
Boil the bread crumbs in milk until soft, then mash into a pulp.
Mix the pig fry, inside fat, lean pork, onions, garlic, parsley, chervil, sage, and the bread pulp together.
Add the egg yolks and whites, salt, sugar, white pepper, mustard flour, nutmeg, mace, lemon rind, and coriander seeds. Stir well.
Stuff and cook
Stuff the mixture into cleaned pig's skins, tying both ends and leaving room for expansion.
Place the puddings in warm water, bring to a boil, then simmer gently for 2 hours.
Hang in a cool place until needed.
Serve
To serve, broil or roast for 25 minutes and serve hot on a napkin.
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.
Explore the science
The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Chervil + coriandertop 8% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together34 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together29,030 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Parsley + sagetop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,445 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Parsley + coriandertop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,062 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
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Garlic + coriandertop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together6,477 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Lean pork
- Provides the main meaty body and structure of the filling.
- Inside fat
- Adds richness and moisture, keeping the filling tender as it cooks.
- Bread crumbs
- Soaked in milk, they absorb liquid and help bind and soften the filling.
- Egg yolks
- Enrich the filling and help bind it so it sets when cooked.
- Egg whites
- Add structure and lightness, helping the filling hold together as it sets.
- Onions
- Contribute sweetness and aroma as a savory flavor base.
The step that matters
Leaving room for expansion when stuffing the skins. The filling swells and expands during cooking, so packing the skins too tightly can cause them to burst. Leaving space and tying both ends firmly keeps the pudding intact.
Flavor stand-ins for the chervil
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, onion, garlic, parsley, sage, bread, milk):
- Thymebetter flavor fit
- Marjorambetter flavor fit
- Pepperbetter flavor fit
- Chervilthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, garlic, parsley, sage, bread, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
“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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