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Sauce Au Fenouil

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and fennel match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 117 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sauce Au Fenouil

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

  1. Lime + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together117 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + fenneltop 27% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Lime + buttertop 30% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + limetop 34% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,658 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, fennel):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, fennel. 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).