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Soups Made From Dried Beans, Peas, or Cowpeas

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and lentils match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 135 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Soups Made From Dried Beans, Peas, or Cowpeas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the dried legumes in water for several hours or overnight.

  2. Drain the soaked legumes and add fresh water.

  3. Cook the legumes until tender with onion, celery, and salt.

  4. Strain the mixture to remove the skins.

  5. Dilute or boil down the juice and pulp to the desired soup consistency.

  6. Thicken the soup slightly with a mixture of flour and butter.

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. Beans + lentilstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beans + peanuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Lentils + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together255 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Beans + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Lentils + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together316 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, lentils, peanut, onion, flour, butter):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, lentils, peanut, onion, flour, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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