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Consomme Au Riz

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery 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 ↓

Consomme Au Riz

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a clear soup or consomme.

  2. Cook the rice separately until tender.

  3. Finely cut the carrots, beetroot, celery, and leeks, then cook them separately.

  4. Add the cooked vegetables to the soup half an hour before serving.

  5. Flavour the soup with beetroot juice and season to taste.

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 + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Beetroot + leektop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  3. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Celery + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, carrot, celery, leek):

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Lettucefits about as well
  4. Beetrootthe original

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

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