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Quails with Pease

A stew of quails cooked with ham, veal, carrot, onion, sweet herbs, lard, and peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21,601 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Quails with Pease

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Draw and prepare the quails.

  2. Cover the bottom of a stewpan with ham, veal, carrot, onion, and sweet herbs.

  3. Cover the quails with slices of lard and a round of paper.

Cook and serve

  1. Bring to a boil and place fire under and over the stewpan.

  2. Once cooked, drain the quails and serve with a ragout of peas.

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 + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + peastop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,994 recipes

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

  3. Onion + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,460 recipes

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

  4. Veal + carrottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Ham + vealtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,264 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Quails
Provide the main meat, which cooks gently in the stewpan until tender.
Slices of lard
Cover the quails to add fat and keep them moist during cooking.
Peas
Served as a ragout alongside the quails, adding sweetness and freshness.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (quail, ham, veal, carrot, onion):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Peasthe original
  4. Chestnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against quail, ham, veal, carrot, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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