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Large Macedoine Garniture

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and lima beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 156 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Large Macedoine Garniture

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut carrots and turnips into fancy shapes, parboil, and glaze them.

  2. Scallop cucumbers and toss them in butter.

  3. Cut string beans into diamond shapes, boil in lightly salted water, then immerse in cold water to retain color.

  4. Boil Brussels sprouts and peas, treating them the same way as string beans.

  5. Use only the flower buds of cauliflower and broccoli, keeping them in small bunches.

  6. Parboil and glaze the small onions.

  7. Keep mushrooms white, cutting the tops into crescent shapes.

  8. Cut cooked artichoke bottoms into quarters.

  9. Cook all vegetables separately, then combine them in a flat saucepan.

  10. Season with salt and pepper, add a little Cream sauce, and toss gently over the fire.

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. Beans + lima beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Artichoke + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Artichoke + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together154 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Artichoke + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Swap the brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, artichoke, turnip, peas, beans, lima beans, cucumber):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Cauliflowerfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, artichoke, turnip, peas, beans, lima beans, cucumber. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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