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Vol-au-vent Financiere

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Vol-au-vent Financiere

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a small quantity of white stock by simmering chicken bones, veal, onion, mace, white pepper, and salt for 1 hour.

  2. Add ½ cup of white wine to improve the flavor and let it cool.

  3. Remove all fat from the cooled stock and use it to make your white sauce.

  4. Warm the white parts of a fowl, chickens’ kidneys, cocks’ combs, quenelles, truffle skins, artichoke bottoms, and mushrooms in the white stock.

  5. Fill the vol-au-vent case with the mixture and garnish with fried croutons or prawns.

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. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Mace + white peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,695 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Onion + artichoketop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together738 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Veal + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together815 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. White wine + artichoketop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together206 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, veal, onion, mace, white wine, truffle, artichoke):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, veal, onion, mace, white wine, truffle, artichoke. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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