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Macedoine of Vegetables

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 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 ↓

Macedoine of Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut carrots and turnips into pieces half the size of a walnut.

  2. In a saucepan, melt butter and add the vegetables and button onions.

  3. Brown the mixture gently.

  4. Wet with a little gravy and add the parboiled mushrooms, young beans, haricots, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, peas, and tops of cauliflowers.

  5. Add a walnut-sized piece of sugar and let simmer for a short time.

  6. Thicken with a little flour just before serving.

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. Beans + asparagustop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together292 recipes

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

  3. Turnip + asparagustop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together328 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turnip + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together400 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Carrot + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,443 recipes

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

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

Swap the brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, butter, onion, mushroom, beans, asparagus):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, butter, onion, mushroom, beans, asparagus. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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