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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and arrowroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 525 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Broth

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the meat gently until tender to extract flavor.

  2. Ensure vegetables and herbs are clean before adding them to the broth.

  3. Skim the broth carefully to keep it clear.

  4. To clarify, beat the egg white and add it to the broth, stirring with a whisk.

  5. After a few minutes of boiling, strain the broth through a fine cloth.

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. Flour + arrowroottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together525 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Rice + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Arrowroot + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Arrowroot + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, flour, arrowroot, rice, bread, egg):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, flour, arrowroot, rice, bread, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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