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TuRKEY Soup

A soup made from turkey bones, water, celery, dressing, egg, butter, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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TuRKEY Soup

Why it works: Celery and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

TuRKEY Soup

Oven, in the book's wordsA steady oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Place the turkey bones in a soup pot and cover with water.

  2. Add the chopped celery and cook for 1 hour.

  3. Stir in the dressing and beaten egg.

  4. Remove from heat and add butter, pepper, and salt to taste.

Serve

  1. 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. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Turkey + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

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

  3. Turkey + celerytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together431 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey bones
Release flavour and body into the broth as they simmer.
Egg
Beaten egg stirred in to add richness and help bind the soup.
Dressing
Adds seasoning and body to the broth.
Butter
Adds fat and a rounder, richer mouthfeel when stirred in off the heat.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Sagefits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, egg, butter, 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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