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Petits-pois Et Pommes De Terre Au Beurre

A simple dish of green peas and new potatoes boiled with onion and parsley, finished with melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 9,023 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Petits-pois Et Pommes De Terre Au Beurre

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the vegetables

  1. Boil water in a pot.

  2. Add peas, new potatoes, salt, onion, and parsley.

  3. Cook until potatoes and peas are tender.

  4. Drain the vegetables.

Serve

  1. Peel the potatoes and place them with the peas in a serving dish.

  2. Drizzle with melted butter and serve.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Peas + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,016 recipes

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

  4. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Peas + parsleytop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

New potatoes
Provide the starchy base of the dish, becoming soft and mild as they cook.
Fresh green peas
Add sweetness and a tender texture to the dish.
Melted butter
Adds richness and a smooth fat coating over the cooked vegetables.

Flavor stand-ins for the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, onion, parsley, butter):

  1. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Lentilsbetter flavor fit
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion, parsley, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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