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Pheasant Rissoles. Rissoles De Faisan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Red currant and port wine work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Pheasant Rissoles. Rissoles De Faisan.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the pheasants by cooking them thoroughly.

  2. Make a strong essence of the pheasants and reduce the sauce.

  3. Add the minced pheasant meat to the sauce and cool it.

  4. Finish the dish as per the instructions for Rissoles No. 777.

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. Red currant + port winetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Pheasant + saucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together290 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  3. Sauce + port winetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together424 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pheasant + port winetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Sauce + red curranttop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together104 recipes

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

Swap the red currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pheasant, sauce, port wine):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pheasant, sauce, port wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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