Why it works: Parsley and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓
The Soup Course
Ingredients
Directions
Vegetable Soup.
Soup bone $0.1000
% pint tomatoes 0267
1 carrot ( V2c) 0075
1 medium onion (%c) 0125
1 slice cabbage, or chopped cel- ery (1 T) 0006
3 medium potatoes 0188
1 t chopped parsley 0000
V2 c rolled oats, or rice 0082
3 t salt 0009
% t pepper 0063
Gas for simmering- 5 hours 0200
Cost per quart, 6 2-3 cents. Cost per cupful, 1 2-3 cents.
Put soup bone on in 4 quarts cold water, place on simmerer and cook about 5 hours. If there is much grease allow to cool, remove grease and use for frying purposes. When the meat has been boiling 1% hours, add the tomato. Add rolled oats the last hour of cooking, and vegetables run through grinder half hour before serving; also salt and pepper at this time. The parsley should be added just before serving. The meat I use in making hash. — Mrs. L. M. Welch, 1351 East Lincoln street.
"Vegetable Soup Without Meat.
1 lb. potatoes $0.0250
y* c onion 0125
1/2 c celery 0071
1 c turnips 0125
1 c carrot 0150
1 c cabbage 0094
1 lb. tomatoes 0500
iy2 t salt 0005
% t white pepper 0010
3 sprigs parsley 0000
1 small pinch summer savory.. .0001 Sweet marjoram, if available.. .0001
Gas, to simmer 2 hours 0080
Water to cover well. Use that
in which vegetables have been boiled if convenient.
2 Ms quarts soup, .10 cups $0.1446
A large cup 0144
Wash and peel vegetables and chop very fine; put all on stove in cold water, cover tight. Simmer two hours. — Mrs. A. L. Veazie, 695 Hoyt street.
Vegetable Soup.
(Second Prize.)
2 t salt 0006
2 hours very low gas (simmer- ing) 0080
1 quart costs 3% cents and 1 cup- ful less than 1 cent.
Prepare and dice all of the above vegetables. Put in a kettle and add the salt and water. Cook over a low fire for two hours. This soup being made without stock of any kind, is very economical and will be found especially attractive and appetizing when served with a little chopped parsley sprinkled on top. — Mary A. Morrison, 752 Montgomery Drive.
White Bean Soup.
1 lb. white kidney beans $0.1500
Yi lb. onion 0100
V2 pint rich milk 0300
3 t salt and cloves 0100
Fuel, 2 hours (Ms use of stove) .0300
Cost of 3 quarts $0.2700
Cost of 1 quart, 9 cents; 1 cupful,
2 % cents.
Soak beans over night, pour off wa- ter, place in double boiler with onion with cloves stuck in it. When both are very tender put through colander. Add salt an<j milk, reserving a bit of milk. When almost boiling, add wa- ter enough to make required quan- tity. Then add well beaten egg added to remainder of milk and serve very soon with croutons made of stale bread. — Mrs. Kittie Goodall Turner, Box 12, Route 3, Corvallis, Or.
Bean Soup (With Meat).
15c) $0.1125
1 t soda 0007
5c worth pickled pork 0500
2 t salt 0006
1-16 t cayenne pepper 0005
Dash paprika 0001
Gas, simmering 3 hours 0120
Cost $.01764
Bring beans and soda to the boil- ing point. Drain and rinse well. Then put on in 3 quarts of cold water, add- ing the pork scored through the rind in several places. Cook on simmerer about 3 hours, or preferably in fire- less cooker. When nearly ready to serve dip out about 1 cup of the cooked beans and rub through a coarse sieve, allowing the puree to drop into the soup and rejecting the hulls. Stir well and serve with crusts of bread diced and browned slightly. 3V2 quarts cost $0.1769, 1 cupfui costs 1*4 cents. — Mrs. M. B. Rees.
Lima Bean Soup.
Soak a pint of dried lima beans
over night, turn off water in morning.
Put 3 pints of water on them and
boil for two hours. Then rub through
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 12 of 16 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Navy Bean | 1/2 cup (91g) cooked | 127 |
| Lima Beans | 1/2 cup (85g) cooked | 108 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Broccoli | 1 cup chopped (156g) | 55 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Turnip | 1 medium (122g) | 34 |
| Carrot | 1 medium (61g) | 25 |
| Tomato | 1 medium (123g) | 22 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Parsley | 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) | 1 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Summer Savory | not in our table | 0 |
| Soup | not in our table | 0 |
| Bean | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
Explore the science
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.
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Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together8,053 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together8,002 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Parsley + summer savorytop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together241 recipes
Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
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Summer savory + turniptop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together42 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Cabbage + turniptop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together897 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, parsley, summer savory, carrot, onion, potato, turnip):
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Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, parsley, summer savory, carrot, onion, potato, turnip. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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