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Soup Doree

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and saffron work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 189 recipes. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

Soup Doree

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Toast the slices of bread.

  2. Soak the toasted bread in a jelly made of sugar, white wine, yolk of egg, and rosewater.

  3. Fry the soaked bread until golden.

  4. Soak the fried bread again in rosewater.

  5. Sprinkle with sugar and saffron before serving.

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.

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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. White wine + saffrontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together189 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Bread + white winetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together827 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + saffrontop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the saffron

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, sugar, white wine, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Saffronthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, sugar, white wine, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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