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 ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Sauce, Mayonnaise, 53
Green, 54
„ Mint, 54
,, Mushroom, 54
Brown, 55 ,, ,j Puree, 55
I, Mustard, 55 „ Onion, 55
„ Brown, 55 Orange Cream, 56 „ Parsley, 56
Pine Apple, 56 „ Plum, 56
Poivrade, 57 „ Prune, 57 Padish, 57 „ Raspberry, 57 „ Ratafia, 57 „ Rayigotte, 57 „ Robert, 58 „ Sorrel, 58 „ Soubise, 58 „ Sweet, 58
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
,, Soup, 40
Sorrel Sauce, 58 „ Soup, 40 Soubise Sauce, 58 Soutile, Cheese, 92 Omelet, 93 Soup, Almond, 23 ,, Apple, 24 „ Artichoke, 24 ,, Asparagus, 24 „ Barley, 25
Bean, French, 27 „ ,, Green, 27 ,, ,, Haricot, Red, 26 ,, „ Haricot, White, 26 ,, Beetroot, 26
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
„ Hare, 32 „ Hotch Potch, 52 ,, Jardiniere, 33 ,, Julienne, 33 „ Leek, 33 „ Lentil, 33 ,, Lentil a la Soubise, 34 ,, Macaroni, Clear, 34 Thick, 34
„ Milk, 35
„ Mock Turtle, 35
Mulligatawny, 35 ,, Onion, 35 ,, ,, Brown, 36 „ Ox-tail, 36 ,, Palestine, 24 „ Parsnip, 36 „ Pear, 37 „ Pea, Split, 37
„ Green, Dried, 37 „ „ „ Fresh, 38 „ Potato, 38 ,, Pumpkin, 39 „ Rhubarb, 39 „ Rice, 39
„ a la Roy ale, 39 „ Sago, 40 „ Scotch Broth, 40 „ Sea Kale, 40 „ Sorrel, 40 „ Spinach, 41 „ Tapioca, 41 „ Tomato, 41
Turnip, 42 „ Vegetable, 33
„ Marrow, 42
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
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
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Rice | 1 cup cooked (158g) white | 206 |
| Pine | 1 oz (28g) | 191 |
| Cheese | 1 oz (28g) cheddar | 113 |
| Apple | 1 medium (182g) | 95 |
| Orange | 1 medium (131g) | 62 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Turnip | 1 medium (122g) | 34 |
| Tarragon | 1 tsp dried (0.5g) | 2 |
| Sauce | not in our table | 0 |
| Scotch | not in our table | 0 |
| Sorrel | not in our table | 0 |
| Soup | not in our table | 0 |
| Bean | not in our table | 0 |
| Endive | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Tarragon + sorreltop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together75 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Pine + tarragontop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together16 recipes
Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).
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Orange + appletop 7% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together2,230 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Pine + ricetop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together156 recipes
Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
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Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,787 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, cream, pine, tarragon, sauce, rice, sorrel):
- Lemonfits better
- Limefits better
- Avocadofits better
- 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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