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Swiss White Soup

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Swiss White Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stock for 6 persons Beat up 3 eggs

  2. 2 spoonfuls flour 1 cupful milk

  3. Pour this slowly through a seive into the boiling soup, add salt and pepper. Anonymous.

  4. DUMPLINGS.

  5. Vz teaspoonful salt tartar

  6. 1 teaspoonful sugar 1 cupful sweet milk

  7. Mix the dry ingredients together and put through the seive, add milk and mix quickly, roll 1/2 inch thick and boil 10 minutes. Mrs. Ware.

  8. OYSTERS AND FISH,

  9. " Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the seas.^^ " Why, as men do a-land, the great ones eat up the little ones.'^

  10. FISH BALLS,

  11. 1 cupful salt cod 1/^ tablespoonful butter

  12. Vs teaspoonful pepper Pick the codfish into small pieces, pare potatoes and cut into smallish pieces; boil together in w^ater enough to cover till the potatoes are done. Drain well and nijish thoroughly. Add beaten egg, melted butter, pepper and a little salt, if needed. Shape into balls, roll in flour and fry in smoking hot fat till a nice brown. Drain on paper. C. S.

  13. To fry fish without breaking, use a large quantity of fat and have it smoking hot. Roll the fish in corn meal and fry brown, turn and fry the other side brown. The fish will be thoroughly done and will not crumble. Salt to taste. Mrs. B. Rogers.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1259Calories
52 gProtein
45 gFat
159 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Salmon100g cooked208
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Soupnot in our table0
Codfishnot 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 Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [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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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.

  1. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sugar, egg, pepper, flour, cream, butter):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Asparagusfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar, egg, pepper, flour, cream, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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