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Salmis of Partridges

Partridges cooked in a sauce of stock, red wine, shallot, herbs, and lemon, served on fried sippets.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Salmis of Partridges

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Blend flour and butter in a saucepan without browning.

  2. Add stock or gravy, red wine, shallot, herbs, salt, and pepper.

  3. Simmer for 30 minutes and strain the sauce.

Finish and serve

  1. Simmer the partridge joints in the sauce without boiling.

  2. Add lemon juice and serve the partridges on fried sippets with sauce over them.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  5. Shallot + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,476 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Partridges
Provide the main cooked meat, which is gently reheated in the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the sauce when blended with butter.
Butter
Enriches the sauce and carries the flour so it blends smoothly.
Red wine
Adds acidity and depth of flavour to the sauce.
Stock or gravy
Forms the savoury liquid base that gives the sauce body.
Shallot
Adds a mild aromatic sweetness as it cooks into the sauce.

The step that matters

Simmer the partridge joints without boiling. Boiling toughens cooked meat and can make the sauce break or reduce unevenly, so the partridge should only be kept hot gently in the sauce.

“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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