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A stew of fowl pieces cooked with onion, garlic, herbs, walnut liquor or mushroom ketchup, flour, lemon juice, and optional mushrooms.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

To Stew Fowl

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a stewpan, combine the chopped onion, garlic, marjoram, lemon thyme, and walnut liquor or mushroom ketchup.

  2. Add the pieces of fowl and bring to a boil.

  3. Reduce heat and let it simmer, adding a few balls if desired.

  4. In a bowl, mix the flour, lemon juice, and browning, then stir this mixture into the stew and serve.

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. Marjoram + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Marjoram + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together957 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Clove + marjoramtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Thickens the stew liquid into a smoother, more body-rich sauce.
Walnut liquor or mushroom ketchup
Adds deep savory flavor to the stew base.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich flavors of the stew.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, clove, garlic, marjoram, lemon, thyme, flour):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, clove, garlic, marjoram, lemon, thyme, flour. 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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