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Consomme a LA Jardiniere

A clear vegetable consommé with carrots, turnip, celery, spinach, peas, and cauliflower.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Consomme a LA Jardiniere

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the vegetables

  1. Boil 3 pints of consommé in a pot.

  2. Add 1 chopped carrot, 1 chopped turnip, some chopped celery, and spinach cut into different shapes.

  3. Cook until tender.

Finish the soup

  1. Stir in ¼ pint of peas and small sprays of cauliflower.

  2. Cook the mixture in the consommé until everything is heated through.

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

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Turnip + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turnip + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Consommé
Forms the clear liquid base and carries the flavour of the whole soup.
Carrot
Adds mild sweetness and a bright orange colour as it softens.
Turnip
Contributes a mild, slightly peppery flavour and firm texture to the broth.
Peas
Add sweetness and a fresh green colour that dulls with long cooking.
Cauliflower
Adds tender bite and body to each spoonful of the soup.

The step that matters

Add the peas and cauliflower last. Peas and cauliflower cook quickly. Adding them after the other vegetables are tender and only heating until hot keeps the peas bright green and the cauliflower firm rather than mushy.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, celery, spinach, cauliflower):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, celery, spinach, cauliflower. 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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