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Pease Soup Purée — Purée De Pois

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Anchovy and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,057 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pease Soup Purée — Purée De Pois

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Quarter the sweet herbs and add them to a pot with whole pepper, mace, and cloves.

  2. Nearly fill the pot with boiling water and tie the top down tightly with a bladder.

  3. Cook in a water bath for three to four hours.

  4. Pour off the soup and thicken it with a little flour and butter.

  5. Stir in a tablespoon of any of the sauces for flavor.

  6. Heat thoroughly and serve with forcemeat balls and the best parts of the hare meat.

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. Anchovy + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Mace + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Clove + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,663 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, clove, flour, butter, anchovy, sauce, mushroom):

  1. Capersbetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, clove, flour, butter, anchovy, sauce, mushroom. 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).

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