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Cauliflower Au Gratin

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cauliflower and capers share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cauliflower Au Gratin

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

618Calories
17 gProtein
14 gFat
107 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Olive1 large (4g)4
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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. Cauliflower + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + caperstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Cauliflower + olivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

Swap the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, olive, capers, butter):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, olive, capers, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.