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Timbal, with a Galantine of Turkey and Truffles

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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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 ↓

Timbal, with a Galantine of Turkey and Truffles

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bone the two turkeys carefully.

  2. Remove the meat from the thighs of one turkey and replace it with the breast meat from the other.

  3. Weigh 1½ pounds of thigh meat and 2¼ pounds of fat bacon.

  4. Chop, pound, and pass the meat through a wire sieve.

  5. Pound and rub the panade through a sieve.

  6. Combine the panade with the meat to make a forcemeat.

  7. Add the seasoned spice, egg yolks, veloute or béchamel, shallots, parsley, mushrooms, and truffles to the forcemeat.

  8. Mix well and use as desired.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

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

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

  4. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  5. Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, meat, chicken, egg, shallot, mushroom, truffle):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, meat, chicken, egg, shallot, mushroom, truffle. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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