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Parsley, Lemon, Eggs

A bird stuffed with bread and butter, wrapped in pickled pork, baked in a dripping pan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Parsley, Lemon, Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the birds

  1. Draw each bird and fill it with a piece of bread and butter, seasoned with pepper and salt.

  2. Wrap each bird with a thin piece of pickled pork, securing it with the bird's bill.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the birds in a dripping pan and bake for 30 minutes, basting frequently.

  2. If necessary, add a little butter to the gravy and serve hot.

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. Bread + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,371 recipes

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

  3. Butter + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Pepper + porktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Soaks up butter and juices inside the bird, keeping the filling moist and soft.
Butter
Adds fat that carries flavour and helps the skin brown and the meat stay moist.
Pickled pork
Lays fat over the bird, basting it as it renders and adding salty, savoury flavour.

The step that matters

Basting frequently in the dripping pan. Regular basting spreads fat and juices over the skin, helping it brown evenly and keeping the meat from drying out during the 30 minutes of baking.

“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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