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Potage a LA Reine

A creamy soup made with rabbit or fowl boilings, ground almonds, and roux.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and almond work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Potage a LA Reine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the ground almonds with the rabbit or fowl boilings in a pot.

  2. Stir in the roux until well mixed.

  3. Heat the mixture over medium heat until warmed through.

  4. Serve hot as a creamy soup.

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. Rabbit + almondtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Rabbit or fowl boilings
Forms the liquid base of the soup and carries its flavour.
Ground almonds
Adds body and a rich, creamy texture through their fat and fine solids.
Roux
Thickens the liquid as its starch swells with heat, giving the soup body.

The step that matters

Heat the mixture over medium heat until warmed through. Once roux is stirred in, the starch thickens as it heats and can stick and scorch on the base of the pot. Stirring gently and keeping the heat moderate helps the soup thicken smoothly without lumps or a burnt taste.

“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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