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Chilled Sour Cherry Soup with Tarragon

The herbal, anise-like flavor of fresh tarragon has a savory yet sweet quality that plays off the almond-like nuances of late spring’s fresh sour cherries. This first-course soup of Hungarian origin features a bracing sweet-sour theme that’s meant to whet the appetite for the dishes to come.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 884 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By williamssonoma. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Lemon + tarragontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together884 recipes

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

  2. Shallot + tarragontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, lemon, red wine, sugar, cream, tarragon):

  1. Asparagusabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Shallotthe original
  4. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, lemon, red wine, sugar, cream, tarragon. 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).