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Broth with Vegetables

A broth made with vegetables and steak, finished with butter and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 897 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Broth with Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. In a large pot, bring the broth to a simmer.

  2. Add the chopped cabbage, tomato, turnip, and celery.

  3. Cook until the vegetables are tender.

Add the meat and finish

  1. Add the steak and squash, cooking until the steak is done.

  2. Stir in the tomatoes and cook for a few more minutes.

  3. Serve hot with butter and cream 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. Cabbage + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together897 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Turnip + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

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

  4. Cabbage + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,840 recipes

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

  5. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Steak
Provides protein and savory meaty flavor to the broth as it cooks through.
Broth
Forms the liquid base that cooks the vegetables and carries the flavor.
Celery
Adds aromatic flavor and a crisp, tender vegetable texture to the soup.
Tomatoes
Adds acidity and fresh flavor, and softens into the broth as it cooks.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, turnip, celery, butter, cream):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, turnip, celery, butter, cream. 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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