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Consomme a LA Jardiniere

A clear consommé enriched 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

  1. Boil 3 pints of consommé in a pot.

  2. Add 1 chopped carrot, 1 chopped turnip, some chopped celery, and chopped spinach.

  3. Cut the vegetables into different shapes with a cutter.

  4. Add ¼ pint of peas and small sprays of cauliflower.

  5. Cook until the vegetables are tender.

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.

Explore the science

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
Clear savoury broth that forms the liquid base of the soup.
Carrot
Adds sweetness and colour, and softens as it cooks.
Peas
Add a sweet flavour and bright colour, and cook quickly.
Cauliflower
Gives a firmer, tender bite that holds its shape in the broth.

The step that matters

Cook until the vegetables are tender. Small, delicate pieces cook quickly. Overcooking softens their texture further and dulls their bright colour, so check them often near the end.

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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