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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and parmesan cheese work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 577 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Garbure

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bake a crust of bread in a dish with fat broth.

  2. Prepare any vegetables and pour them over the baked bread.

  3. Serve the real soup separately.

  4. Each person takes a spoonful of the bread with vegetables and adds a ladleful of soup.

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. Bread + parmesan cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together577 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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