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Consomme Polonaise

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and fennel share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 79 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Consomme Polonaise

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Color the consomme with beetroot juice or stir in pureed beetroot.

  2. Add chopped green peas, stewed celery, and minced mushrooms as desired.

  3. Sprinkle chopped fennel over the surface before 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Beetroot + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together276 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Beetroot + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together652 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Beetroot + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together250 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Peas + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beetroot, celery, mushroom, fennel):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, celery, mushroom, fennel. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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