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Mock Turtle Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and beef work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 798 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Mock Turtle Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare oysters on the half shell.

  2. Simmer beef with vegetables and seasonings.

  3. Strain the broth and add oysters.

  4. Serve hot.

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. Oyster + beeftop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

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