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Chervil

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and wine work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Chervil

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a dish with chervil, gravy, oil, and wine.

  2. Serve chervil with fried fish.

  3. Use chervil in salads.

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.

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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. Chervil + winetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Chervil + fishtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Wine + fishtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together168 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the chervil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wine, fish):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Chervilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, fish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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