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Celery Soup

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Why it works: Tomato and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,719 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Celery Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 2 tsp. corn starch dissolved in a little milk or water, season with salt, pepper and butter. When served, add 1 tsp. of whipped cream to each cup. Mrs. W. B. MacLean.

  2. FRENCH SOUP. 2 tbs. butter, 1 tbs. flour, 1 chopped onion (small). Cook the above together until the flour browns, then add 2 cups tomato and cook ten minutes longer. Strain and add to lj qts. beef stock. Season with salt, pepper and celery, salt. Mrs. A. A. George.

  3. MUSHROOM SOUP. Clean and chop Jib. mushrooms, add 1 qt. chicken stock; cook twenty minutes. Cook J cup of pearl sago in 1 cup boiling water thirty minutes, add to stock; as soon as boil- ing point is reached add 1 cup of rich, sweet cream and beaten yolks of 2 eggs. Heat up and serve.

  4. Mrs. H. W. Gibson.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

165Calories
11 gProtein
6 gFat
19 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Soupnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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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. Tomato + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  4. Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, mushroom, egg, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, mushroom, egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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