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Beryl Cisler

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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Beryl Cisler

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 18 PRAGUE CHAPTER BOOK OF RECIPES

  2. SPANISH CHICKEN— Cut up chicken, place in roasting pan, season with salt and pepper, add four or five slices of bacon cubed and fried with one large onion until brown, one can of tomatoes, one cup water, red pepper or paprika to taste and roast until chicken is tender. Strain gravy, thicken with a little flour and water mixed, add one can peas, one can mushrooms drained, and one cup cooked carrots cut in small pieces ; let come to boil, pour over chicken and serve. Beef can be made the same, only stew it on top of stove instead of roasting.

  3. MILADA R. KOREN.

  4. STEWED CHICKEN WITH PARSLEY GRAVY— Joint a

  5. stewing chicken, cover with boiling water, add piece of celery, pars- nip, carrot, parsley, onion ; season with salt and stew until tender. Remove chicken and strain broth. Fry three tablespoons flour with two tablespoons butter until a light yellow, add to half of the chicken broth and boil until thick ; add five sprigs parsley chopped fine and a little nutmeg or mace and perhaps a little more salt. When this gravy is boiling drop in dumplings and boil fifteen minutes over slow fire, stirring often.

  6. DUMPLINGS — One box of Uneeda crackers, rolled fine, or same amount of bread crumbs. One heaping tablespoon butter, half clove garlic rubbed with a little salt, parsley chopped fine, three eggs and quarter cup milk. Form balls size of walnut.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1084Calories
64 gProtein
34 gFat
127 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Macenot 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.

By Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Parsley + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

  4. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, flour, parsley, garlic, milk, chicken, onion):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, flour, parsley, garlic, milk, chicken, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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