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Puree-of-Game Soup

A soup made by boiling game meat with vegetables, pureeing, and mixing with bread crumbs, served with fried bread croutons.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Puree-of-Game Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the game meat in stock or water with carrots, onions, celery, and herbs until tender.

  2. Mash the meat and rub it through a strainer.

  3. Mix the strained meat with bread crumbs and the strained stock.

  4. Serve with croutons of fried bread.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  3. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  5. Onion + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Game meat
Provides the main flavor and body, and its fibers break down into the soup when mashed and strained.
Bread crumbs
Thicken the strained mixture, giving the soup body and a smoother texture.
Carrots
Add sweetness and aromatic flavor to the simmering stock.
Onions
Build savory depth and aroma as they cook into the stock.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, carrot, celery, bread):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, carrot, celery, bread. 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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