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Pheasants a LA Turque

A stew of pheasants served over rice with béchamel sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pheasant and rice work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 52 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Pheasants a LA Turque

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pheasants

  1. Prepare the pheasants like chickens for stewing, placing fat bacon over the breasts.

  2. Stew the pheasants gently in good braise until cooked through.

Cook the rice

  1. In a separate pot, stew rice in good consommé with a bit of fat and lean ham until no liquid remains.

Assemble and serve

  1. Neatly layer the rice in a dish and place the cooked pheasants on top.

  2. When ready to serve, pour béchamel sauce over the entire dish.

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. Pheasant + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Rice + hamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together477 recipes

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

  3. Pheasant + saucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together290 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  4. Pheasant + hamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Rice + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Pheasants
Provide the main meat, which becomes tender through slow stewing in braise.
Fat bacon
Bastes the breasts with fat so the lean birds stay moist while stewing.
Rice
Forms the base layer and absorbs the consommé, carrying flavour under the meat.
Béchamel sauce
Adds a creamy, rich sauce that moistens the dish when poured over it.

The step that matters

Stewing the pheasants until cooked through. Pheasant is lean, so it dries out easily; gentle, moist heat in braise keeps the meat tender while it cooks fully.

“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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