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Boned Birds in Aspic Around Socle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Boned Birds in Aspic Around Socle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mold boned birds in fluted individual molds.

  2. Decorate with hard-boiled eggs in a daisy design.

  3. Garnish the dish with parsley.

  4. For the socle, remove the crust from stale bread and cut the crumb to the desired shape.

  5. Spread the bread with butter and cover with finely chopped parsley.

  6. For a hot dish, immerse the bread in hot fat until golden brown.

  7. Alternatively, fill a well-buttered cake tin with boiled hominy and let it cool to retain the shape.

  8. For a rice socle, boil rice with three times its quantity of water and a little butter until very soft.

  9. Mash the rice into a smooth paste and press it into a buttered mold, placing a weight on top to compact it.

  10. Unmold and shape the sides with a knife and butter-stamp, then brush with egg yolk and briefly bake to brown.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Parsley + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Bread + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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 (egg, bread, butter, rice):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Cinnamonfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Capersfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread, butter, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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