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Creamed Carrots and Turnips

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Creamed Carrots and Turnips

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scrape and remove the core from the carrots, then cut them into small strips.

  2. Boil the carrots until tender, then drain the water.

  3. Add coarse sea salt, black pepper, a sprinkle of sugar, and a large piece of butter, and let them simmer.

  4. Sprinkle flour over the top and stir thoroughly.

  5. Add enough milk to create a sauce and let it boil for 5 to 10 minutes.

  6. Peel the turnips, cut them into cubes, and cook them in the same way.

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Turnip + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, pepper, sugar, butter, flour, milk):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Turnipthe original

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

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