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Potage Aux Petits Pois

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 25,843 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Potage Aux Petits Pois

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Layer onions in a pot and add small slices of veal and various herbs.

  2. Pour in stock and let it stew gently until it develops a good color.

  3. In a separate pan, fry a little bacon with parsley.

  4. Add green peas to the bacon and stew until tender.

  5. Pound the peas in a mortar and mix them into the soup with the veal.

  6. Once thickened, remove the veal to serve with another sauce.

  7. Pass the soup through a fine sieve until smooth.

  8. It should be as thick as cream; add a pinch of powdered sugar to taste.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Parsley + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Onion + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,460 recipes

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

  4. Onion + vealtop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together6,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Veal + parsleytop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,766 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the peas

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

  1. Chestnutbetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, veal, parsley, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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