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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Timbale

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Boil water in a pot and cover it.

  2. Keep the pot on moderate heat or in a 350°F (175°C) oven for one hour.

  3. Once the timbale is inverted onto a plate, surround it with a chain of white mushrooms.

  4. Garnish the top with a small bunch of two mushrooms.

  5. Pour a little Madeira sauce at the bottom of the plate.

  6. Serve additional Madeira sauce separately in a sauceboat.

  7. Optionally, fill the timbale with a ragout of chicken scallops or foie gras, or a lean ragout with oysters, roe, and crawfish tails.

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. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Sauce + roetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Oyster + roetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Sauce + oystertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Chicken + oystertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together972 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

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