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Stewed Carrots

Stewed carrots simmered in water with salt, optionally garnished with parsley and served with milk gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Stewed Carrots

Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Stewed Carrots

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and scrape the carrots.

  2. Slice the carrots and place them in a saucepan with a little boiling water.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook until tender.

  2. Add coarse sea salt to taste and chopped parsley if desired.

  3. Serve with or without milk gravy.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Carrot + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Parsley + milktop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,011 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Carrots
Carrots are the main ingredient and provide the dish's sweetness and body when cooked until tender.

Swap the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, milk):

  1. Celeryfits about as well
  2. Cinnamonfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Marjoramfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, milk. 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.

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