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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

  1. In a pot, combine water, carrots, turnips, onions, and winter savory; boil until the meat's substance is drawn out.

  2. Remove from heat, strain, and skim off any foam.

  3. Season with white pepper, Cayenne pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  4. Add lemon juice and peel, white wine, ketchup, and egg whites; return to heat and boil for 6 minutes.

  5. Strain through a jelly bag until clear.

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 + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Turnip + winter savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together304 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Carrot + winter savorytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together699 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  5. Winter savory + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together616 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, onion, winter savory, pepper, lemon, white wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, onion, winter savory, pepper, lemon, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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