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Puree of Carrots

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Puree of Carrots

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean the young carrots without scraping and cut them into slices.

  2. Braise the carrots in butter with chopped shallots, celery, ham bone, and mixed spices.

  3. Add strong beef bouillon and bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer until the carrots are soft.

  4. Remove the ham bone and thicken the mixture with flour and water or grated raw potatoes.

  5. Cook until the mixture becomes transparent.

  6. Pass through a puree strainer and season with coarse sea salt and white pepper.

  7. Serve with plain boiled barley on the side.

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

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

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

  3. Shallot + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Celery + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Carrot + shallottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together803 recipes

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

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, butter, celery, ham, beef, flour, potato):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, butter, celery, ham, beef, flour, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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