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Olives in Jelly

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Watercress and chervil share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Olives in Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill each olive with anchovy butter.

  2. Line small molds with aspic jelly and decorate with chervil.

  3. Fill the molds with cold liquid aspic jelly.

  4. Keep the molds on ice until firm.

  5. Spread each croute thickly with watercress butter.

  6. When ready, place the molds on the croute and serve.

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. Watercress + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Olive + watercresstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together684 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + cherviltop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the chervil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, anchovy, butter, watercress, bread):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Chervilthe original
  4. Garlicfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, anchovy, butter, watercress, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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