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Bouillon De Mou De Veau Pour Les Maladies

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and watercress share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Bouillon De Mou De Veau Pour Les Maladies

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove all adhering parts from the veal liver.

  2. Boil the liver in 2 liters of water for 2 hours, reducing the liquid by half.

  3. Add chervil, watercress, wild chicory, and pimpernel to the pot.

  4. Cover the infusion and let it steep off the heat for 10 minutes.

  5. Strain the broth through a fine sieve.

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. Chervil + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Watercress + chicorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chervil + chicorytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Veal + livertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).

  5. Liver + watercresstop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Swap the chervil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, liver, watercress, chicory):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Chervilthe original
  3. Parsleyfits less well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, liver, watercress, chicory. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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