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
Prepare the jardiuibre clear soup.
Cook the whitings au gratin.
Roast the neck of venison until tender.
Make quenelles of fowl and cook them.
Braised the pheasant and serve with Soubisc sauce.
Prepare tendons of veal and serve with a puree of spinach.
Roast the larks until golden.
Make brown-bread pudding and serve with preserved cherries.
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.
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Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together236 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Fish + breadtop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,668 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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Pheasant + spinachtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together24 recipes
Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).
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Fish + whitingtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together317 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Spinach + breadtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked 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):
- Shallotfits better
- Tomatofits better
- Capsicumfits about as well
- 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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