Name: Timbale De Foie-gras Aux Truffes
Ingredients: good raw foie gras; fresh truffles; chicken fillets; fresh pork; bacon; trimmings of foie gras; fresh truffle scraps; shortcrust pastry; butter

Why it works: Chicken and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Timbale De Foie-gras Aux Truffes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare a filling with chicken fillets, fresh pork, bacon, trimmings of foie gras, and fresh truffle scraps.
Pass the mixture through a sieve.
Butter a dome-shaped mold and line it with shortcrust pastry.
Fill the mold with the prepared filling.
Bake until cooked through and set.

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.

Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,417 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Truffle + porktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,380 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).
Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,209 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Truffle + chickentop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together756 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together13,933 recipes

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