Name: Quenelles De Volaille En Aspic
Ingredients: Chicken quenelle meat; Truffle; White chaud-froid sauce; Aspic jelly; Ham

Why it works: Truffle and ham work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 516 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Quenelles De Volaille En Aspic

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare chicken quenelles and poach them until cooked.
Once cold, coat the quenelles with the chaud-froid sauce.
Decorate with ham and truffle cut into decorative shapes.
When the sauce is firm, pour a little aspic jelly over each quenelle.
Serve on an aspic border, placing a small rose of Montpellier butter between each quenelle.
In the center, pile cooked white button mushrooms tossed in aspic, and sprinkle with finely chopped truffles.

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.

Truffle + hamtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together516 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Chicken + meattop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,449 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,095 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together527 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together756 recipes

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