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Savoury Trifles

A savory trifle made with minced game, chicken, or veal, pickled mushrooms, cream, cayenne pepper, and coarse sea salt, served on fried bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Savoury Trifles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the game, chicken, or veal very fine.

  2. Chop the pickled mushrooms and add to the meat.

  3. Stir in a little cream, cayenne pepper, and coarse sea salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat the mixture thoroughly in a saucepan.

  2. Serve on fried bread or in small cases.

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 + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  3. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Mushroom + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,500 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

Game, chicken, or veal
Forms the main body of the filling, giving it a meaty, savoury texture once finely minced.
Pickled mushrooms
Add a tangy, acidic bite that contrasts with the rich meat.
Cream
Adds moisture and softness, helping the filling stay tender when heated.

The step that matters

Heat the mixture thoroughly in a saucepan. The minced meat must be heated all the way through so that it is safely cooked. Stirring while it heats helps prevent scorching on the base of the pan and keeps the cream from separating.

“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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