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Truffles Croustades En Surprise

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Truffles Croustades En Surprise

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Brush and wash the truffles in warm water.

  2. Dress the truffles in Champagne wine and let them cool.

  3. Lay the truffles on their flattest side and pierce them to three-fourths of their depth with a root-cutter.

  4. Carefully remove the cover with a knife and empty the truffles using a small teaspoon.

  5. Fill the truffles with a puree of fowl or game, or a mixture of fowl and truffles, or cocks’ kidneys with truffles.

  6. Sauce the filled truffles with Bechamel, or fill them with small escalopes of fat livers or fillets of larks with small mushrooms, saucing with Espagnole or Allemande.

  7. Cover the filled truffles with the round pieces removed earlier.

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. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  2. Wine + mushroomtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

  3. Champagne + winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Truffle + champagnetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together120 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Truffle + livertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

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

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