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Potage De Profiteroles a LA Macedoine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 184 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Potage De Profiteroles a LA Macedoine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a mixture of small root vegetables: carrots, turnips, green beans, celery root, peas, and cucumbers.

  2. Blanch and cook the vegetables separately, then cool them down.

  3. Sauté the cooled vegetables together to combine them.

  4. Fill fifteen profiterole buns with the sautéed vegetable mixture.

  5. Simmer the filled profiteroles in a sauté pan.

  6. Finish the potage by adding a sprig of chervil to the chicken broth, seasoning with pepper.

  7. Serve hot.

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. Turnip + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together184 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Green beans + peastop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Turnip + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, celery, peas, cucumber, chervil, chicken):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, celery, peas, cucumber, chervil, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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