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Grand Bouillon De Poisson

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Leek and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 148 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Grand Bouillon De Poisson

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fish by cleaning and cutting them into pieces.

  2. Place the fish in a wide, shallow pot with chopped vegetables.

  3. Add a few glasses of white wine according to the amount of fish.

  4. Put the pot on the stove and reduce the liquid until almost dry.

  5. Cover the fish with hot water and add coarse sea salt.

  6. Skim the liquid carefully; when it boils, move it to the side of the stove.

  7. Add a strong bouquet of leeks, chervil, parsley, thyme, bay leaf, and some spices.

  8. Monitor the cooking; once the fish is cooked, degrease the broth and strain it.

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. Leek + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Chervil + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together774 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Leek + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Chervil + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, leek, chervil, thyme):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

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

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