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Soup a LA Julienne

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and leek match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,046 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Soup a LA Julienne

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the vegetables into small shreds.

  2. In a stew-pan, heat a little fine salad oil and gently stew the vegetables over low heat.

  3. Add weak broth as needed while cooking.

  4. Toast slices of bread and cut them into pieces the size of coins.

  5. Soak the bread pieces in the remaining broth.

  6. Once the vegetables are tender, combine everything and let it simmer for a few minutes.

  7. Season with a lump of white sugar, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

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. Turnip + leektop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Turnip + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together526 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Leek + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Turnip + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, carrot, turnip, leek, cauliflower, lettuce, bread):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Endivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

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