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Consomme Au Riz En Pilau

A clear consommé flavored with carrots, turnips, leeks, celery, garlic, and rice pilaf.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and leek match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,046 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Consomme Au Riz En Pilau

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the broth

  1. Boil the liquor carefully until all scum is removed.

  2. Add carrots, turnips, leeks, celery, celery seed bag, pastille de légumes, and unpeeled garlic.

  3. Simmer gently until reduced to desired quantity.

  4. Strain through a fine sieve and return to saucepan.

Add rice and cook

  1. Add washed rice at a ratio of ½ dessert spoonful per ½ pint of liquor.

  2. Bring to a boil once, then cover tightly.

  3. Place a flat iron on the cover if it has a flat top and leave on the hob for 1 hour.

Serve

  1. Serve in a soup tureen.

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. Turnip + leektop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turnip + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Carolina rice
Starch that thickens the strained liquor and helps clarify it as it cooks.
Carrots
Add sweetness and aromatic depth to the broth as they simmer.
Leeks
Contribute mild onion-like flavour to the broth.
Celery
Adds savoury, aromatic flavour to the broth.
Turnips
Add gentle sweetness and earthy flavour to the broth.

The step that matters

Skimming the liquor at the start. Scum rising at the boil carries impurities that would cloud the consommé, so it must be removed completely before the vegetables are added.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, leek, celery, clove, rice):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, leek, celery, clove, rice. 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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