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Consomme Andalousie

A consommé flavored with tapioca, tomato sauce, and veal or chicken quenelles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,469 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Consomme Andalousie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the tapioca in the consommé.

  2. Stir in the tomato sauce.

  3. Add the quenelles.

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. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tomato + vealtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Sauce + vealtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

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

What each ingredient does

Tapioca
Thickens the consommé as its starch swells and softens in the hot liquid.
Tomato sauce
Adds acidity, colour and a rich tomato flavour to the clear broth.
Veal or chicken quenelles
Add soft, savoury dumplings that give the soup substance and texture.

The step that matters

Boil the tapioca in the consommé. Tapioca thickens only when its starch gelatinises in hot liquid. Pearls that are not cooked through stay chewy and can leave the soup cloudy and grainy.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, veal):

  1. Tomatothe original
  2. Shallotfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Onionfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, veal. 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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