Why it works: Pistachio and nuts match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 425 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Consomme of Fowl
Ingredients
Directions
Ensure milk and cream are in the kitchen by Wednesday morning.
Have all other items ready by Tuesday.
Prepare stocks and foundation sauces two days before the dinner.
Follow detailed instructions from the first number of this work.
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.
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Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together425 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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Parmesan cheese + mushroomtop 6% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,199 recipes
Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
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Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together12,525 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
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Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,163 recipes
Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
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Coffee + nutstop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together105 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the pineapple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coffee, parmesan cheese, pistachio, nuts, mushroom, sugar, butter):
- Vanillafits better
- Coconutfits better
- Figfits better
- Pineapplethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against coffee, parmesan cheese, pistachio, nuts, mushroom, sugar, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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