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Broth a LA Minute

A quick chicken and beef broth with vegetables, simmered for 30 minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and leek match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,310 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Broth a LA Minute

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Bone the chicken and cut it into small pieces with the minced beef.

  2. Pound the mixture in a mortar.

  3. Pass it through a mincing machine until fine.

  4. Chop the chicken carcass into pieces.

Make the broth

  1. Place in a stew-pan with the minced meats.

  2. Add 1 pint of cold water and ½ teaspoon of salt.

  3. Bring slowly to a boil.

  4. Skim the surface well.

  5. Add the prepared vegetables.

  6. Stick the clove into the onion.

  7. Allow the mixture to simmer for about 30 minutes.

  8. Season to taste.

  9. Strain.

  10. Serve as required.

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 + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,326 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  3. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Gives the broth its meaty flavour and body as it simmers.
Lean beef
Adds deep meaty flavour and body to the broth.
Carrot
Adds subtle sweetness and aroma to the broth.
Onion
Adds savoury depth and aroma as it simmers with the clove.

The step that matters

Skim the surface well. Bringing the liquid slowly to a boil and skimming removes coagulated proteins and fat that would otherwise cloud the broth and make it greasy.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, beef, carrot, onion, leek, pepper):

  1. Celeryfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, beef, carrot, onion, leek, pepper. 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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