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Cabbage Soup, Potage Aux Choux D LA Paysanne

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and cauliflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 305 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Cabbage Soup, Potage Aux Choux D LA Paysanne

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the cabbage by boiling it until tender.

  2. Remove the gills from the boiled turkey and set aside.

  3. Cook the salmon and partridges until done.

  4. Boil the rabbits and fowls until cooked through.

  5. Prepare a sauce with onions and parsley.

  6. Make a puree of cauliflower.

  7. Boil the potatoes until soft.

  8. Cook the veal scallops in melted butter.

  9. Boil the mackerel until cooked.

  10. Serve with a fennel sauce.

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. Cabbage + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

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

  2. Turkey + rabbittop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Parsley + cauliflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together233 recipes

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

  4. Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  5. Cabbage + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, salmon, rabbit, chicken, onion, parsley, cauliflower):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, salmon, rabbit, chicken, onion, parsley, cauliflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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