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Consomme a Un Fine Herbs

A consommé flavored with parsley, chives or green onions, and chervil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 370 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Consomme a Un Fine Herbs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add the chopped parsley, chives or green onions, and chervil to the consommé.

  2. Heat the mixture until very hot.

  3. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Chive + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together370 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Parsley
Adds a fresh, green herbal aroma and light flavor to the consommé.
Chives or green onions
Add a mild onion-like flavor and a fresh bright note.
Chervil
Adds a delicate, slightly anise-like aroma that suits a clear broth.

The step that matters

Heating the mixture until very hot. Fresh herbs contain delicate aromatic compounds that break down and fade with prolonged heat. Heating only until hot, then serving straight away, keeps the herb flavor and color bright.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chive, chervil):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Garlicfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chive, chervil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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