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A hearty soup of lamb chops, veal, potatoes, string beans, tomatoes, served with corn flakes, raspberries, peaches, bread, butter, milk, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,713 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. In a large pot, brown the lamb chops and veal over medium heat.

  2. Add diced potatoes, string beans, and chopped tomatoes to the pot.

  3. Cover with water and simmer until the vegetables are tender.

Serve

  1. Serve hot with corn flakes on the side.

  2. Garnish with fresh raspberries and peaches.

  3. Enjoy with bread, butter, milk, and sugar to taste.

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 + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

  2. Beans + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Potato + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Potato + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together655 recipes

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

  5. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Browning the meat adds savory flavor to the broth.
Veal
Adds meaty richness and body to the soup.
Potatoes
Soften during simmering and thicken the soup slightly with their starch.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and moisture, giving the broth a bright flavor.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, veal, potato, beans, tomato, corn, bread):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, veal, potato, beans, tomato, corn, bread. 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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