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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Panada

Why it works: Shallot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Panada

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cover the panada with milk or cream and steam for 30 minutes.

  2. Drain excess liquid and squeeze the panada dry in a thin cloth.

  3. Place it in a small saucepan and add enough white sauce or gravy to absorb.

  4. Stir constantly over low heat until it forms a dry paste that sticks to the spoon.

  5. Mix in the unbeaten yolks of 2 eggs and let it cool before using.

  6. In a separate pan, brown ham, shallots, bay leaf, mushrooms, parsley, cloves, and mace in butter.

  7. Add broth or gravy and simmer for 20-30 minutes to develop flavor.

  8. Strain the mixture over the panada and boil it into the bread.

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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

  3. Shallot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,677 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Parsley + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Mushroom + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,663 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sauce, egg, ham, shallot, mushroom, parsley):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sauce, egg, ham, shallot, mushroom, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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