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Fruit and Vegetable Soups

A creamy soup made with rice, stock, egg yolks, and cream, simmered gently and finished with a strained egg‑cream mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,399 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Fruit and Vegetable Soups

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Boil the rice in the stock.

  2. Rinse half of the rice through a fine sieve.

  3. Put the stock in a stewpan, add all the rice, and simmer gently for 5 minutes.

Finish the soup

  1. Beat the egg yolks and mix them with the boiled cream, then strain through a fine sieve.

  2. Remove the soup from the heat, add the egg and cream mixture, stirring frequently.

  3. Gradually heat the soup while stirring, but do not let it boil to prevent curdling.

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. Rice + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Rice + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,350 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Releases starch as it cooks, which thickens the stock and gives the soup body.
Egg yolks
Thicken and enrich the soup as their proteins set gently with heat.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky mouthfeel to the soup.
Stock
Forms the liquid base and carries the main savory flavor of the soup.

The step that matters

Gradually heating the soup after adding the egg mixture. Egg yolk proteins set and curdle if they get too hot too quickly. Stirring constantly while warming gently, without letting the soup boil, keeps the texture smooth and creamy.

“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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