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Cold Macedoine Garniture

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 145 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cold Macedoine Garniture

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the carrots and turnips with spoon cutters.

  2. Cook the carrots and turnips in broth until tender and glaze them.

  3. Boil the green vegetables until tender and keep them green.

  4. Cook the white vegetables until tender and keep them white.

  5. Drain all vegetables on a napkin.

  6. Season the vegetables with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.

  7. Once dry, dip the vegetables in Aspic jelly.

  8. When cold, trim the vegetables nicely.

  9. Add capers and gherkins, and dress the vegetables in bunches, alternating colors.

  10. Garnish with additional Aspic jelly.

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. Turnip + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together145 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Turnip + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Carrot + caperstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together288 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turnip, pepper, vinegar, capers):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turnip, pepper, vinegar, capers. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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