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Carrots for Small Garniture, Olive-shaped

Olive-shaped carrots glazed with cream and sauce, served as a small garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Carrots for Small Garniture, Olive-shaped

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the carrots into olive shapes using a spoon cutter.

  2. Cook the carrots until glazed.

  3. Add 4 tablespoons of cream and either Allemande or Brown sauce, as desired.

  4. Toss well to combine and serve.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

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

Sauce and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Carrots
Provide the main body and natural sweetness, which concentrates as the carrots cook and glaze.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, softening the flavour and giving the carrots a smooth coating.
Allemande or brown sauce
Adds savoury depth and moisture, coating the carrots and carrying flavour.

The step that matters

Cook the carrots until glazed. Carrots should stay tender but hold their shape. Overcooking makes them soft and breaks the olive shape, while too much heat can scorch the sugars in the glaze and make it bitter.

Swap the carrot

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sauce, butter, 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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