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Soupe a LA Julienne

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 824 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Soupe a LA Julienne

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a soup pot, combine 4 pints of good rich consomme.

  2. Cut carrots and turnips into ribands about 1 inch wide, then finely shred them.

  3. Shred leeks and celery.

  4. Boil each vegetable separately and drain on a sieve.

  5. An hour before serving, add the vegetables to the consomme and let it boil slowly.

  6. Tie sprigs of chervil and tarragon together and add to the soup.

  7. Before serving, add a little sugar and coarse sea salt to taste.

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 + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together824 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Turnip + leektop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Leek + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turnip + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together184 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, leek, chervil, tarragon, sugar):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, leek, chervil, tarragon, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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