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Potage De Quenelles a LA Florentine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and peas work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 170 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Potage De Quenelles a LA Florentine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the consommé as directed for macaroni soup.

  2. Mix the same batter for the quenelles and add the chervil.

  3. Form the quenelles using a teaspoon and poach them in the consommé just before serving, without boiling.

  4. Transfer the quenelles to a soup tureen containing the deboned chickens and cooked peas.

  5. Pour in the boiling consommé and serve with grated Parmesan on the side.

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 + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chicken + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,528 recipes

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

  3. Peas + parmesan cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together366 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Chicken + parmesan cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,846 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Chervil + chickentop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together206 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 (chicken, peas, parmesan cheese):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Basilfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Chervilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, peas, parmesan cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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