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Potage De Macaroni D LA Benevente

A hearty macaroni soup with ox palates, tongue, butter, and Parmesan cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,076 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Potage De Macaroni D LA Benevente

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the consomme and reduce it by one-third.

  2. Cut the ox palates and tongue into large dice.

Stew and cook

  1. Stew the palates and tongue in the consomme with butter, pepper, and garlic for two hours.

  2. Cook the macaroni according to package instructions, then mix in the tomato sauce.

Layer and serve

  1. Layer a little consomme at the bottom of a tureen.

  2. Add a layer of Parmesan cheese.

  3. Place the palates and tongue on top.

  4. Finish with more cheese.

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.

Explore the science

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. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  4. Butter + parmesan cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Tomato + parmesan cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,490 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ox palates
Provide the main meaty, gelatinous body of the soup.
Macaroni
Adds starchy bulk and a soft, chewy texture to the soup.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savory, salty depth and melts into the layers.
Consomme
Forms the clear, savory broth that carries the other ingredients.
Tomato sauce
Adds acidity and a light tomato flavor to the macaroni.

The step that matters

Stew the palates and tongue for two hours. Ox palates are tough and rich in collagen; a gentle, sustained simmer is needed to soften them and convert collagen into gelatin, giving a tender texture and silky broth. Rushing this leaves the meat chewy.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, tomato, sauce, parmesan cheese):

  1. Basilfits about as well
  2. Celeryfits about as well
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, tomato, sauce, parmesan cheese. 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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