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Small ‘timbales’, Scottish Fashion

A small pancake shell filled with cooked poultry puree, raw force-meat, and cooked mushrooms.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Small ‘timbales’, Scottish Fashion

Oven, in the book's wordsA slack oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slack oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the moulds

  1. Butter the dariole moulds and coat them with bread crumbs.

  2. Line the inside of each mould with strips of pancakes.

Fill and bake

  1. Mix cooked poultry puree with raw force-meat and cooked mushrooms to create a filling.

  2. Fill the hollow of the moulds with the mixture and cover with a flat pancake.

  3. Place the filled moulds on a baking sheet and bake in a 300°F (150°C) oven until set.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  4. Bread + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  5. Meat + mushroomtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,423 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked poultry puree
Provides the main body and savoury flavour of the filling.
Raw force-meat
Binds the filling and sets firm during baking, holding the timbale together.
Cooked mushrooms
Adds moisture and earthy flavour to the filling.
Strips of pancakes
Forms the thin outer shell that encloses the filling as it sets.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Baking at a low 300°F (150°C) lets the egg-rich force-meat set gently. Higher heat can make it curdle, toughen, or puff and crack, so check for firmness rather than relying on time alone.

“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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