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Creamed Pumpkin Soup

A pumpkin soup made with chicken stock, milk, coffee cream, and spices, garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,814 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Creamed Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Heat the chicken stock to boiling point.

  2. Mix the pumpkin with the heated stock just before serving.

  3. Stir in the whole milk, coffee cream, sugar, nutmeg, salt, white pepper, Tabasco sauce, and onion juice.

Serve

  1. Serve garnished with chopped parsley and a dash of nutmeg or a small dot of whipped cream.

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.

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. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Pumpkin + nutmegtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,126 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Nutmeg + white peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Pumpkin
Provides the main body, color and sweet, earthy flavor of the soup.
Whole milk
Adds moisture and softness, mellowing the soup into a smooth, creamy texture.
Coffee cream
Adds fat, giving the soup a richer mouthfeel and a rounder, silkier texture.
Chicken stock
Forms the liquid base that carries the flavor and thins the pumpkin into a soup.

The step that matters

Mix the pumpkin with the heated stock just before serving.. Pumpkin left standing in hot liquid can separate or thicken unevenly, so combining it at the last moment keeps the soup smooth and evenly textured.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pumpkin, chicken, sugar, nutmeg, sauce, onion, milk):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pumpkin, chicken, sugar, nutmeg, sauce, onion, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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