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A Fricandeau De Volatile Avec Truffles

A stew of fowl, bacon, truffles, herbs, stock, and wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

A Fricandeau De Volatile Avec Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the fowl

  1. Bone the fowl and lard it with bacon seasoned with pepper.

  2. Line the bottom of a stewpan with slices of fat bacon.

  3. Place the bones and trimmings of the fowl on the bacon, then add the fowl itself.

  4. Add cleaned truffles, stock, bay leaves, onion, and sweet herbs.

  5. Cover the fowl with bacon slices and lay paper over it.

Stew and brown

  1. Set on a stove and let it stew gently for about 1.5 hours.

  2. Put a little fire on top of the stewpan.

  3. After stewing, place the fowl in a 400°F (200°C) oven for a few minutes to brown.

Serve

  1. Serve the fowl with the strained and reduced gravy, adding sliced truffles and white wine.

  2. Garnish with cresses.

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. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Onion + white winetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,535 recipes

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

  4. Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Clove + white winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,715 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

What each ingredient does

Fowl
Provides the main meat, which is gently stewed until tender.
Bacon
Larding and lining add fat and moisture, keeping the lean meat juicy during stewing.
Stock
Liquid that gently cooks the fowl and forms the base of the gravy.
Truffles
Add a strong earthy aroma to the finished dish and gravy.
White wine
Adds acidity and brightness to the reduced gravy.

The step that matters

Gentle stewing. Stewing the fowl gently keeps the meat tender and moist. Boiling it hard would toughen the proteins and drive out juices, leaving the meat dry and stringy.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, clove, white wine, truffle):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, clove, white wine, truffle. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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