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Why it works: Tarragon and sorrel share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vegetarian Cookery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sauce, Mayonnaise, 53

  2. Green, 54

  3. „ Mint, 54

  4. ,, Mushroom, 54

  5. Brown, 55 ,, ,j Puree, 55

  6. I, Mustard, 55 „ Onion, 55

  7. „ Brown, 55 Orange Cream, 56 „ Parsley, 56

  8. Pine Apple, 56 „ Plum, 56

  9. Poivrade, 57 „ Prune, 57 Padish, 57 „ Raspberry, 57 „ Ratafia, 57 „ Rayigotte, 57 „ Robert, 58 „ Sorrel, 58 „ Soubise, 58 „ Sweet, 58

  10. Tarragon, 58 „ Tartar, 58 „ Tomato, 59 „ Truffle, 59 „ Yanilla, 59 „ White, 59 Sauces, 44 Sayoury Rice, 66 Scotch Broth, 40 „ Kale, 148 Sea Kale, 148

  11. ,, Soup, 40

  12. Sorrel Sauce, 58 „ Soup, 40 Soubise Sauce, 58 Soutile, Cheese, 92 Omelet, 93 Soup, Almond, 23 ,, Apple, 24 „ Artichoke, 24 ,, Asparagus, 24 „ Barley, 25

  13. Bean, French, 27 „ ,, Green, 27 ,, ,, Haricot, Red, 26 ,, „ Haricot, White, 26 ,, Beetroot, 26

  14. Sonp, Cabbage, 27 „ Carrot, 27 „ Cauliflower, 28 „ Celery, 29 Cheese, 29 „ Cherry, 29 „ Chestnut, 30 „ Clear, 30 „ Cocoanut, 31 „ Cottage, 30 Endive, 31 „ Fruit, 31 „ Green Pea, Dried, 37 „ Fresh, 38

  15. „ Hare, 32 „ Hotch Potch, 52 ,, Jardiniere, 33 ,, Julienne, 33 „ Leek, 33 „ Lentil, 33 ,, Lentil a la Soubise, 34 ,, Macaroni, Clear, 34 Thick, 34

  16. „ Milk, 35

  17. „ Mock Turtle, 35

  18. Mulligatawny, 35 ,, Onion, 35 ,, ,, Brown, 36 „ Ox-tail, 36 ,, Palestine, 24 „ Parsnip, 36 „ Pear, 37 „ Pea, Split, 37

  19. „ Green, Dried, 37 „ „ „ Fresh, 38 „ Potato, 38 ,, Pumpkin, 39 „ Rhubarb, 39 „ Rice, 39

  20. „ a la Roy ale, 39 „ Sago, 40 „ Scotch Broth, 40 „ Sea Kale, 40 „ Sorrel, 40 „ Spinach, 41 „ Tapioca, 41 „ Tomato, 41

  21. Turnip, 42 „ Vegetable, 33

  22. „ Marrow, 42

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

754Calories
19 gProtein
35 gFat
98 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 14 ingredients. The other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Turnip1 medium (122g)34
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Saucenot in our table0
Scotchnot in our table0
Sorrelnot in our table0
Soupnot in our table0
Beannot in our table0
Endivenot 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 Payne, A. G. (Arthur Gay), 1840-1894. 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. Tarragon + sorreltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pine + tarragontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Orange + appletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Pine + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, cream, pine, tarragon, sauce, rice, sorrel):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, cream, pine, tarragon, sauce, rice, sorrel. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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