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Rissoles D LA Parisienne

A brioche pastry filled with small pieces of cooked fowl or game, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 24,744 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Rissoles D LA Parisienne

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roll out the brioche paste very thin.

  2. Place pieces of fowl or game two inches from the edge, one inch apart.

  3. Egg the edges of the paste, fold it over the filling, and press to seal.

  4. Cut out round rissoles with a 2-inch cutter, ensuring the filling is centered.

  5. Lay them on lightly floured surfaces to rise.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in lard that is not too hot, turning with a skewer until golden.

  2. Drain on a double napkin and serve immediately.

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. Nutmeg + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together24,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Brioche + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

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

  3. Brioche + nutmegtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

Nutmeg and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 24,744 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Brioche paste
Enriched dough that puffs and becomes tender and golden when fried, enclosing the filling.
Fowl or game
Cooked meat filling that provides the savoury body inside the rissoles.
Egg
Beaten egg wash that acts as glue to seal the edges and helps browning.

The step that matters

Fry in lard that is not too hot. If the fat is too hot, the outside browns and darkens before the dough cooks through and the rissoles can burst or stay doughy inside. Gentle heat lets the dough puff and cook evenly to a golden finish.

“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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