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Plain Economical Soup

A hearty soup made with beef bone, steak, turkey rack, vegetables, and flour thickening.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and turkey work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 248 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Plain Economical Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Place the beef bone, beef steak, turkey rack, and vegetables in a pot with water.

  2. Simmer for several hours.

  3. Strain the soup through a colander.

  4. Mash the vegetables to pass through.

  5. Skim off the fat.

  6. Return the soup to the pot.

Thicken and serve

  1. Mix the flour with water and stir the flour mixture into the soup.

  2. Boil for 10 minutes.

  3. Serve with sippets of toast.

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. Beef + turkeytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  3. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Turkey + flourtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together963 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Thickens the soup as its starch swells in the hot liquid, giving it body.
Beef steak
Adds meaty flavour to the broth as it simmers.
Turkey rack
Contributes savoury flavour and body to the broth as it simmers.

The step that matters

Stir the flour mixture into the soup. Flour clumps if added dry or poorly mixed. Mixing it with water first and stirring it in gives an even thickening, and the soup must then boil so the starch fully swells.

“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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