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Potato Soup with Green Peas

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Potato Soup with Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a liaison by whisking together the egg yolks, cream, Parmesan cheese, and nutmeg.

  2. Five minutes before serving, stir the liaison into the soup, mixing well without boiling.

  3. Season the soup with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  4. Add the drained vegetables and blend them into the soup.

  5. Serve the soup hot, garnished with boiled peas, chervil, and croutons.

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. Nutmeg + cherviltop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + cherviltop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together867 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Peas + cherviltop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Peas + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream, parmesan cheese, nutmeg, pepper, chervil, bread):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream, parmesan cheese, nutmeg, pepper, chervil, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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