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Noodle Soup

A simple soup made with egg noodles, milk, butter, and optional corn.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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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 ↓

Noodle Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the noodles

  1. In a bowl, mix the eggs, flour, and salt until combined.

  2. Roll the mixture out as thin as possible like pie crust and let it dry slightly.

  3. Roll the crust tightly and cut it into very thin slices to resemble strings.

Cook the soup

  1. In a pot, heat the water or chicken soup with milk, pepper, and butter.

  2. Drop the noodle strings into the boiling liquid and cook for about 5 minutes until done.

  3. For added flavor, include corn off the cob while cooking.

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

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

  2. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Pepper + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the dough and give the noodles structure so they hold their strings when cooked.
Flour
Forms the dough's main structure, which lets it be rolled thin and cut into strands.
Milk
Adds richness and a creamy body to the broth.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth mouthfeel to the broth.

The step that matters

Rolling and drying the dough. If the dough is rolled too thick or not dried slightly, the noodles can turn gummy or break apart. Rolling it thin and letting it firm up helps the strands cut cleanly and cook evenly.

“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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