Name: Homemade Tomato Soup
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 2 gallons Whole Garden Tomatoes, 2 Gallons Is Approximately 13 Pounds; 4 whole Medium Onions, Chopped; 1 bunch Celery, Chopped; 6 cloves Garlic; 1 bunch Parsley; ¼ cups Pickling Salt; ½ cups Butter; ½ teaspoons Pepper (optional); 1 cup Sugar; ½ cups Flour Or Cornstarch

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together6,810 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together9,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, onion, celery, garlic, parsley, butter, pepper):

Thymebetter flavor fit
Cuminbetter flavor fit
Tarragonbetter flavor fit
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, onion, celery, garlic, parsley, butter, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

Homemade Tomato Soup