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Sturgeon Soup a LA Chinoise

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Sturgeon Soup a LA Chinoise

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Saw the sturgeon head in half from the back to the snout, then cut into fist-sized pieces.

  2. Soak the pieces in cold water for several hours, changing the water frequently.

  3. Place the sturgeon pieces in a large pot with cold water and boil gently until the shell detaches easily.

  4. Remove the cartilage from the meat and place it in a large pot.

  5. Add enough veal stock to make soup for your guests.

  6. Garnish with chopped carrots, onions, celery, parsley, green onions, marjoram, thyme, sweet basil, mace, cloves, and peppercorns.

  7. Boil gently for about two hours.

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. Marjoram + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sturgeon, veal, carrot, celery, parsley, marjoram, thyme):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sturgeon, veal, carrot, celery, parsley, marjoram, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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