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Creme De Volaille a LA Marie Stuart — Cream of Chicken, Mary Stuart Fashion

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pistachio and nuts match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 425 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Creme De Volaille a LA Marie Stuart — Cream of Chicken, Mary Stuart Fashion

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pound the pistachio nuts until fine.

  2. Mix in the sweet butter and rub through a fine sieve.

  3. Finish the cream with the pistachio butter.

  4. Garnish with cooked green peas and carrot scoops.

  5. Serve with consomme.

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. Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Peas + carrottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,994 recipes

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

  3. Pistachio + carrottop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Butter + peastop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,887 recipes

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

  5. Pistachio + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together587 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pistachio, nuts, butter, carrot):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pistachio, nuts, butter, carrot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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