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Consomme a LA Trianon--consomme, Trianon Fashion

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Why it works: Spinach and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,323 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Consomme a LA Trianon--consomme, Trianon Fashion

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add the three kinds of royal custard to the consomme.

  2. Serve the consomme with poached eggs.

  3. Serve the deviled crusts on a separate dish.

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. Spinach + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,323 recipes

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

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

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