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Potage It LA Julienne. — Julienne Soup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 396 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Potage It LA Julienne. — Julienne Soup.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the carrots, turnips, leeks, parsnips, and other roots into thin, neat slices.

  2. Warm the sliced roots in butter.

  3. Add lettuce and fine herbs to taste, heating the mixture well.

  4. Gradually moisten with bouillon or stock and season with coarse sea salt.

  5. Keep the mixture gently boiling for about an hour, or until the vegetables are tender.

  6. Strain the soup and add a lump of sugar.

  7. Serve the roots in the soup, but use very few herbs.

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. Lettuce + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together396 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Leek + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turnip + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together184 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Turnip + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together590 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turnip, leek, parsnip, butter, lettuce, parsley, chervil):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Endivefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turnip, leek, parsnip, butter, lettuce, parsley, chervil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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