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Consommé K LA Monaco

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 824 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Consommé K LA Monaco

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a clean pan, combine the stock and crushed chicken bones.

  2. Boil for 2-3 hours, adding cold stock as needed.

  3. Strain the stock and set aside to cool.

  4. Clarify the stock using half chicken and half beef.

  5. Prepare quenelles by mixing the white meat with the specified ingredients, dividing into three parts.

  6. Poach the quenelles until cooked, about the size of a common nut.

  7. Add the quenelles to the soup just before serving.

  8. Stir in the Madeira or sherry before serving.

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. Tarragon + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together824 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Parsley + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Parsley + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together774 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  5. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, truffle, tarragon, chervil, mushroom, sherry):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, truffle, tarragon, chervil, mushroom, sherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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