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Soup Chicken and Leeks

A simple soup made with chicken, leeks, water, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and leek work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Soup Chicken and Leeks

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the chicken and cut it into pieces.

  2. Chop the leeks and add them to a pot with the chicken.

Cook and serve

  1. Cover with water and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Simmer until the chicken is cooked through.

  3. Strain the soup and 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.

Explore the science

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. Chicken + leektop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  2. Leek + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together965 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the meat and flavour that builds the body of the broth.
Leeks
Add a mild, sweet onion-like aroma to the broth.

Swap the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper. 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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