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Game, in Aspic Jelly

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,526 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Game, in Aspic Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rinse a plain mold with cold water.

  2. Cover the bottom with a thin layer of liquid aspic and let it set.

  3. Decorate with stamped-out pieces of ham and egg white, fixing them with a little aspic.

  4. Once the decorations have stiffened, add small pieces of seasoned game, freed from skin and bone.

  5. Leave space to fill with jelly, allowing each layer of game to set before adding another.

  6. Keep the mold on ice or in a cool place until ready to serve.

  7. Turn out and serve.

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. Egg + hamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

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

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

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