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Bouillon Souci

A simple garlic and parsley broth served warm.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,308 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Bouillon Souci

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Heat oil and water in a pot until boiling.

  2. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

  3. Add salt to taste after boiling.

Prepare the bowl and serve

  1. Rub a warmed bowl or plate with the clove of garlic.

  2. Chop fresh parsley and add it to the bowl or plate.

  3. Pour the hot broth into the bowl and sip it while warm, chewing the parsley well.

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. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Oil
Adds fat and a rich mouthfeel to the thin broth.
Garlic
Rubbed on the warm bowl, it adds a sharp aroma to the broth.
Fresh parsley
Adds fresh, green aroma and a herbal flavour to the broth.

Swap the clove

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

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, parsley. 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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