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Chaud-froid a LA Russe

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and watercress share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chaud-froid a LA Russe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour a small amount of aspic jelly into small molds and let it set.

  2. Cut small tomatoes in half and place one half in each mold.

  3. Fill the molds with more jelly and allow it to set again.

  4. Dip the molds in tepid water to loosen, then turn out onto a silver or glass dish.

  5. Place cut carrot, turnip, or other vegetables in the center.

  6. Garnish with aspic jelly and watercress, and serve with salad dressing.

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. Turnip + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Tomato + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,606 recipes

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

  4. Carrot + watercresstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Tomato + watercresstop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together158 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, watercress):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, watercress. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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