Name: Bouillon Fait En Une Heure
Ingredients: 1 lb beef; small piece of fat pork, chopped; 1 carrot, finely chopped; 2 quarts cold water; 1 onion, chopped; 1 pint boiling water; pepper, to taste; coarse sea salt, to taste; celery salt, 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 cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Bouillon Fait En Une Heure

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

Combine beef, chopped pork, carrot, cold water, and onion in a stewpan.
Stew for 15 minutes until the mixture begins to cling to the sides.
Add the boiling water and boil for 45 minutes.

Strain and serve

Strain the mixture, squeezing the meat well.
Season with pepper, coarse sea salt, and celery salt.
Serve.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Beef + porktop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,690 recipes

Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).
Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together16,012 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,555 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together21,601 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

Beef: Gives the broth its main meaty flavour as it simmers in the water.
Fat pork: Adds richness and extra savoury flavour to the broth.
Onion: Adds aromatic sweetness and depth to the broth.
Carrot: Contributes gentle sweetness and body to the broth.

Swap the onion

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

Potatofits better
Capsicumfits better
Tomatofits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pork, carrot, pepper, celery. 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.