Name: Potage a LA Jardiniere
Ingredients: 2 cups green peas; 4 cups vegetable broth; 1 onion, chopped; 2 carrots, diced; 2 celery stalks, diced; Salt to taste; Pepper to taste

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,172 recipes mention both. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Potage a LA Jardiniere

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Make the soup

Combine the vegetable broth, onion, carrots, and celery in a pot.
Bring the mixture to a boil.
Add the green peas and simmer for 15 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Blend until smooth if desired.

Serve

Serve hot.

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.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together10,172 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Celery + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together16,001 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Carrot + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together14,555 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Peas + carrottop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together2,994 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Onion + carrottop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together21,599 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peas: Provide sweetness and body as they soften during simmering.
Vegetable broth: Supplies the liquid base that carries the flavour and cooks the vegetables.
Onion: Adds savoury depth as it softens and releases its sweetness in the broth.
Carrots: Add sweetness and body as they soften in the simmering broth.

Flavor stand-ins for the peas

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

Beansbetter flavor fit
Black-eyed peaabout as good a flavor fit
Chickpeaabout as good a flavor fit
Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, carrot, celery, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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.