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Consommé De Volaille

A clear soup made from chicken, veal shank, onions, leeks, celery, and broth, clarified with chicken fillets.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Leek and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,093 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Consommé De Volaille

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the fillets from the chickens.

  2. Combine the chickens and veal with the broth in a pot.

Simmer

  1. Add salt and bring to a boil, skimming off any foam.

  2. Add the onions, leeks, and celery, then simmer until the meats are cooked.

  3. Once cooked, remove the meats and sprinkle with salt.

Clarify and finish

  1. Strain the consommé, degrease it, and clarify with the reserved chicken fillets.

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 + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,326 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  3. Clove + leektop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together579 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Clove + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides rich meaty flavour and gelatin that gives the finished broth body.
Veal shank
Adds collagen-rich body and depth of flavour to the long-simmered broth.
Leeks
Contribute mild sweetness and aromatic flavour to the broth.
Onions
Add savoury sweetness and aromatic depth as the broth simmers.
Chicken fillets
Their proteins bind impurities during clarification, leaving a clear consommé.

The step that matters

Skimming the foam after boiling. Foam and impurities that rise early can cloud the broth and muddy its flavour. Removing them keeps the consommé clear and clean-tasting.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, veal, onion, leek, celery):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, veal, onion, leek, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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