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Poele to Boil Fowls in

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and laurel are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,444 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Poele to Boil Fowls in

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the veal and bacon into large dice.

  2. Cut the carrots and onions into dice.

  3. In a stewpan, combine the veal, bacon, carrots, onions, butter, lemon juice, thyme, laurel leaves, salt, and pepper.

  4. Place on a good fire and add a spoonful of boiling broth.

  5. Boil the mixture.

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. Thyme + laureltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,444 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, carrot, butter, lemon, thyme, laurel, pepper):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, carrot, butter, lemon, thyme, laurel, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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