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Potage De Vermicelle Au Consomme

A French soup of vermicelli in consommé, optionally with peas or asparagus.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 808 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potage De Vermicelle Au Consomme

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the consommé as directed for Potage de Sante.

  2. Blanch and drain the vermicelli.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the vermicelli to the consommé and simmer for 25 minutes.

  2. For serving with peas, add 1 pint of dressed peas.

  3. For serving with asparagus, add the blanched points from half a bundle of asparagus and a little sugar.

  4. Serve hot.

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. Peas + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together808 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + sugartop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together488 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Peas + sugartop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,928 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Italian vermicelli
Forms the body of the soup, soaking up broth and adding a soft, starchy bite.
Consommé
Supplies the clear, savoury broth that carries the flavour of the whole soup.

Swap the peas

The recipe marks peas as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (asparagus, sugar):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against asparagus, sugar. 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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