Name: Fillet of Veal, a LA Jardiniere
Ingredients: fillet of veal; carrots; turnips; cauliflower; French beans; green peas; asparagus heads; half glaze or Espagnole sauce

Why it works: Peas and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 807 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fillet of veal as previously described.
Arrange it on a serving dish.
Garnish with groups of turned carrots, turnips, small pieces of cauliflower, diamond-cut French beans, green peas, and asparagus heads.
Sauce with half glaze or a well-finished Espagnole sauce.
Serve immediately.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Peas + asparagustop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Cauliflower + asparagustop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together163 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Carrot + turniptop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together8,001 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Beans + asparagustop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together292 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Cauliflower + peastop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together313 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, carrot, cauliflower, beans, peas, asparagus, sauce):

Tomatobetter flavor fit
Broccoliabout as good a flavor fit
Cucumberabout as good a flavor fit
Turnipthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, carrot, cauliflower, beans, peas, asparagus, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).