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Raised Pie of Vegetables the Modern Way

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 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 ↓

Raised Pie of Vegetables the Modern Way

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a medium pot, combine carrots, turnips, onions, celery, lettuces, and cloves. Moisten with broth and a pinch of salt; skim and simmer gently.

  2. Once the carrots are tender, strain the liquid through a cloth and let it settle to clarify.

  3. Shape about 100 small pieces from young carrots and blanch in boiling water, then cool in cold water.

  4. Repeat with about 30 pieces of turnips.

  5. In separate pans, simmer the carrots and turnips in broth, essence, and a little sugar until firm, then reduce the liquid to a glaze.

  6. Blanch and stew the lettuces and celery with bacon fat, consommé, and skimmed fat from fowls or butter.

  7. Boil the cauliflower, green peas, and Windsor beans separately in salted water with butter until tender.

  8. Prepare asparagus tops and French beans, cutting them to the size of small carrots.

  9. Boil artichoke bottoms in water with butter, lemon juice, and a pinch of salt.

  10. Dress mushrooms with lemon juice.

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 + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together526 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 + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Celery + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, celery, lettuce, clove, sugar, butter):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, celery, lettuce, clove, sugar, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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