Skip to main content

Garnish Op Cucumbers Parcis

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Cucumber and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,564 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Garnish Op Cucumbers Parcis

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut cucumbers into 2-inch lengths, scoop out seeds, and peel off the green rind.

  2. Parboil cucumbers in water for 3 minutes, then plunge into cold water and drain on a napkin.

  3. Fill cavities of cucumbers with quenelle force-meat of fowls.

  4. Garnish the bottom of a deep sauté pan with thin layers of fat bacon.

  5. Place prepared cucumbers in the pan, adding a faggot of parsley and green onion in the center.

  6. Cover with layers of fat bacon and moisten with white chicken consomme.

  7. Simmer gently on low heat for about 1 hour.

  8. Before serving, drain cucumbers and place them in another sauté pan with their own liquor, reduced to a demi-glaze.

  9. Roll cucumbers lightly in the glaze over high heat to adhere and give a bright appearance.

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. Cucumber + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,564 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Cucumber + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Cucumber + chickentop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, onion, chicken):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, onion, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

You might also like

Chicken BrothChicken Broth257 recipesChicken SoupChicken Soup156 recipesCreamed ChickenCreamed Chicken89 recipesChicken PanadaChicken Panada75 recipes