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Soup with Farina Quenelles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and saffron match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 380 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Soup with Farina Quenelles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, cream the butter.

  2. Add the egg, egg yolk, and minced chives, mixing well.

  3. Stir in the farina and let the mixture stand for 10 minutes.

  4. Form the mixture into balls the size of English walnuts.

  5. Drop the balls into boiling soup, cover, and boil for 10 minutes.

  6. Before serving, add minced parsley, chives, and a pinch of saffron.

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. Parsley + saffrontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Chive + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chive + saffrontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Butter + chivetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the saffron

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg, chive, parsley):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Saffronthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg, chive, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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