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Raviolis a LA Napolitaine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and carrot 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 ↓

Raviolis a LA Napolitaine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Butter the bottom of a small stockpot.

  2. Add slices of raw ham, gravy beef, knuckle of veal, and either an old hen or two partridges.

  3. Include two heads of celery, two leeks, and two carrots.

  4. Tie sprigs of thyme and winter savory with parsley into a faggot.

  5. Add cloves, mace, and peppercorns.

  6. Moisten with a large ladleful of broth.

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. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Leek + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Leek + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Celery + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,193 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, ham, beef, veal, celery, leek, carrot):

  1. Parsleyfits about as well
  2. Thymethe original
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, ham, beef, veal, celery, leek, carrot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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