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Potage Tapioca Aux Quenelles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Potage Tapioca Aux Quenelles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a mirepoix with carrots, onion, and celery. Sauté in butter without browning.

  2. Add flour and mix well. Pour in boiling frog broth and bring to a boil.

  3. Simmer for two hours, degrease, and reduce by a quarter. Strain and keep warm.

  4. Prepare asparagus puree and blanch the asparagus tips in advance.

  5. Combine asparagus tips with the warm asparagus puree and a little frog velouté.

  6. In a separate bowl, whisk in the fresh egg yolks, then add heavy cream and pieces of butter.

  7. Mix well and pour into the soup tureen.

  8. Serve with croutons made from bread, dried and glazed with sugar.

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

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Celery + asparagustop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together378 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Carrot + asparagustop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together571 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, celery, butter, flour, asparagus, egg, cream):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, celery, butter, flour, asparagus, egg, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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