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Soitp Jardiniere

A French-style vegetable stew with celery, carrot, onion, tomatoes, leek, parsley, butter, broth, and jelly gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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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 ↓

Soitp Jardiniere

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. In a stew pan, combine the celery, carrot, onion, tomatoes, leek, and parsley.

  2. Add the butter, pepper, and salt, then cover and cook for nearly an hour.

Finish the broth

  1. Once cooked, stir in the broth and cold jelly gravy.

  2. Simmer for an additional hour or until dinner time.

  3. Skim off any grease that rises to the top and save it for clarification.

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. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds richness and carries flavour as the vegetables cook slowly.
Leek
Contributes a mild onion-like sweetness and aroma to the base.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and moisture that help build the body of the broth.
Broth
Forms the liquid base that the vegetables simmer in.
Cold jelly gravy
Thickens the broth and gives it body as it melts into the liquid.

The step that matters

Skim off the grease. Fat that rises to the surface can make the finished broth greasy and cloudy. Removing it while the liquid is hot gives a cleaner, clearer result, and the saved fat can be used for clarification.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, carrot, onion, leek, parsley, butter, pepper. 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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