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Jardiuibre Clear Soup

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Why it works: Whiting and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 236 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Jardiuibre Clear Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the jardiuibre clear soup.

  2. Cook the whitings au gratin.

  3. Roast the neck of venison until tender.

  4. Make quenelles of fowl and cook them.

  5. Braised the pheasant and serve with Soubisc sauce.

  6. Prepare tendons of veal and serve with a puree of spinach.

  7. Roast the larks until golden.

  8. Make brown-bread pudding and serve with preserved cherries.

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. Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Fish + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Pheasant + spinachtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

  4. Fish + whitingtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together317 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Spinach + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, whiting, venison, pheasant, sauce, veal, bread):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, whiting, venison, pheasant, sauce, veal, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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