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★ Vegetable Consommé

A clear vegetable consommé made from celery tops, bay leaves, tomatoes, onions, garlic, thyme, flour, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Evora Bucknum Perkins · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

★ Vegetable Consommé

Ingredients

Directions

  1. With or without 2-3 tablespoons of raw nut butter or soup stock.

  2. Add 1-2 large sliced onions, ¼ cup dried celery tops, 2 large bay leaves, and 2 large tomatoes or ½-⅔ cup stewed tomato.

  3. Add ¼ teaspoon thyme, 1 tablespoon browned flour, 2-3 cloves garlic, if desired 2½-3 teaspoons salt, and 2 quarts water.

  4. Cook together 1-2 hours.

  5. Strain.

  6. Add water to make 2 quarts.

  7. Add more salt if necessary.

  8. Heat.

  9. Serve.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

78Calories
3 gProtein
0 gFat
18 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Celery + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Add acidity and a rounded, savoury flavour to the broth.
Onions
Contribute sweetness and aromatic depth as they cook into the broth.
Browned flour (in the method)
Adds a toasted, deeper colour and body to the broth.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma that mellows during the long simmer.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, tomato, garlic, onion):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, tomato, garlic, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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