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Petit Pois a LA Franchise

A simple stew of peas, butter, cold water, parsley, and a heart of lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,483 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Petit Pois a LA Franchise

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a stewpan, combine the peas, butter, and cold water.

  2. Mix well and add the parsley and lettuce heart.

  3. Cook until the peas are tender.

  4. Serve warm.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Parsley + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,293 recipes

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

  3. Peas + parsleytop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Peas + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Peas
Form the main body of the dish and become tender as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, silky mouthfeel to the cooking liquid.
Lettuce heart
Softens as it cooks, adding gentle sweetness and body to the peas.

Flavor stand-ins for the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, parsley, lettuce):

  1. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  2. Lentilsbetter flavor fit
  3. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, parsley, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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