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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

  1. Vegetable Soup.

  2. Soup bone $0.1000

  3. % pint tomatoes 0267

  4. 1 carrot ( V2c) 0075

  5. 1 medium onion (%c) 0125

  6. 1 slice cabbage, or chopped cel- ery (1 T) 0006

  7. 3 medium potatoes 0188

  8. 1 t chopped parsley 0000

  9. V2 c rolled oats, or rice 0082

  10. 3 t salt 0009

  11. % t pepper 0063

  12. Gas for simmering- 5 hours 0200

  13. Cost per quart, 6 2-3 cents. Cost per cupful, 1 2-3 cents.

  14. 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.

  15. "Vegetable Soup Without Meat.

  16. 1 lb. potatoes $0.0250

  17. y* c onion 0125

  18. 1/2 c celery 0071

  19. 1 c turnips 0125

  20. 1 c carrot 0150

  21. 1 c cabbage 0094

  22. 1 lb. tomatoes 0500

  23. iy2 t salt 0005

  24. % t white pepper 0010

  25. 3 sprigs parsley 0000

  26. 1 small pinch summer savory.. .0001 Sweet marjoram, if available.. .0001

  27. Gas, to simmer 2 hours 0080

  28. Water to cover well. Use that

  29. in which vegetables have been boiled if convenient.

  30. 2 Ms quarts soup, .10 cups $0.1446

  31. A large cup 0144

  32. 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.

  33. Vegetable Soup.

  34. (Second Prize.)

  35. 2 t salt 0006

  36. 2 hours very low gas (simmer- ing) 0080

  37. 1 quart costs 3% cents and 1 cup- ful less than 1 cent.

  38. 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.

  39. White Bean Soup.

  40. 1 lb. white kidney beans $0.1500

  41. Yi lb. onion 0100

  42. V2 pint rich milk 0300

  43. 3 t salt and cloves 0100

  44. Fuel, 2 hours (Ms use of stove) .0300

  45. Cost of 3 quarts $0.2700

  46. Cost of 1 quart, 9 cents; 1 cupful,

  47. 2 % cents.

  48. 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.

  49. Bean Soup (With Meat).

  50. 15c) $0.1125

  51. 1 t soda 0007

  52. 5c worth pickled pork 0500

  53. 2 t salt 0006

  54. 1-16 t cayenne pepper 0005

  55. Dash paprika 0001

  56. Gas, simmering 3 hours 0120

  57. Cost $.01764

  58. 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.

  59. Lima Bean Soup.

  60. Soak a pint of dried lima beans

  61. over night, turn off water in morning.

  62. Put 3 pints of water on them and

  63. boil for two hours. Then rub through

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

661Calories
34 gProtein
8 gFat
122 gCarbs

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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Navy Bean1/2 cup (91g) cooked127
Lima Beans1/2 cup (85g) cooked108
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Turnip1 medium (122g)34
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Summer Savorynot in our table0
Soupnot in our table0
Beannot 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 Chapel, Inie Gage, Mrs. [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. Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Parsley + summer savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Summer savory + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Cabbage + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together897 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, parsley, summer savory, carrot, onion, potato, turnip):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Tomatothe original

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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