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Game Panada

A panada made with white meat of young pheasant or partridge, bread crumbs, milk, broth, pepper, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,703 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Game Panada

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pound the white meat from the breast of the young pheasant or partridge in a mortar, adding a little broth as needed.

  2. Soak the crumb of the penny roll in the milk until absorbed.

Cook

  1. Combine the pounded game with the soaked roll and season with pepper and salt.

  2. Cook the mixture over low heat for ten minutes.

  3. If using raw game, cook for half an hour.

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. Meat + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,703 recipes

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

  2. Meat + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,777 recipes

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

  3. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

White meat of a young pheasant or partridge
Forms the body of the panada, providing the savoury base that the bread binds together.
Crumb of ½ a penny roll
Absorbs liquid and gives the mixture a soft, thickened body.
Milk
Softens the bread crumb and adds moisture for a smooth, tender texture.

The step that matters

Cooking time for raw game. Raw game needs longer gentle cooking than the standard ten minutes so the meat is fully cooked and safe, while low heat keeps the panada from toughening or curdling.

“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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