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Green Pease Soup. -Potage a LA Puree De Pots.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,053 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Green Pease Soup. -Potage a LA Puree De Pots.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. If using old peas, soak them overnight; if new, use immediately.

  2. In a pot, combine peas, onions, carrots, leeks, celery, and the bone or meat.

  3. Toss in butter with parsley and small onions.

  4. Add enough good soup to wet the mixture.

  5. Drain and beat the mixture in a mortar, then pass it through a sieve with the drained juice.

  6. Transfer to a saucepan and simmer for 4 to 5 hours, stirring often to prevent sticking.

  7. Skim the surface before stirring.

  8. Serve over rice, vermicelli, or fried bread at the moment of serving.

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.

  1. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Leek + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, carrot, leek, celery, ham, butter, parsley):

  1. Turnipbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  3. Shallotbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, carrot, leek, celery, ham, butter, parsley. 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).

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