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Of Rice and Quenelles From a City in Spain

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and chervil work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 91 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Of Rice and Quenelles From a City in Spain

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

370Calories
8 gProtein
12 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Chervilnot in our table0

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. Rice + cherviltop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Butter + cherviltop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together805 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the chervil

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Chervilthe original

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