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fat-oilroasted-onion · poultry · savoury · rich · faintly-sweet

Schmaltz

Rendered chicken fat with onion cooked into it. Ashkenazi cooking answering the absence of butter.

on its own
0.0sour
1.0sweet
3.0savoury
0.0bitter
2.0umami
order · canon first12 pairings for Schmaltz.

Potato

classic

Latkes fried in it taste of chicken skin before they taste of potato.

Egg

common

Hard-boiled yolk mashed into poultry fat is the binder, not the mayonnaise.

Rye

common

Spread it on black bread with coarse salt. Nothing else, and nothing missing.

Parsley

common

Green and raw against fat and cooked. The only fresh thing on the plate.

Piperine goes straight into the fat and stays put as it cools and sets.

Carrot

common

Root sugar and poultry fat: the two halves of every chicken soup, concentrated.

Dill

uncommon

Cold green carvone cuts warm poultry fat faster than acid manages to.

Horseradish

uncommon

Sharp volatile heat is the traditional counterweight to a fat this heavy.

Apple

rare

Grate it raw into the fat while warm. Malic acid, poultry, and no vinegar.

Fermented allium sweetness on rendered allium fat. Same bulb, two decades apart.