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Leek Soup a LA Picakde

A soup made with leeks, butter, beef broth, sliced potatoes, and served with small toasts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Leek and potato work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Leek Soup a LA Picakde

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut leeks into shreds.

  2. Fry half of the leeks in butter until softened.

Cook the soup

  1. Add beef broth and sliced potatoes to the pan.

  2. Boil until the potatoes are tender.

Serve

  1. Serve with small toasts.

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. Leek + potatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Leek + beeftop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  4. Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Leek + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together848 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Leeks
Provide the main savoury flavour and soft texture once softened in butter.
Butter
Softens the leeks and carries flavour as they fry.
Beef broth
Forms the liquid base that gives the soup its savoury depth.
Sliced potatoes
Thicken the soup slightly as they cook and become tender.

Swap the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, beef, potato):

  1. Onionfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, beef, potato. 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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