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Tomato and Macaroni Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Barley and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 185 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Tomato and Macaroni Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine the tomatoes, macaroni, and cream. Cook until the macaroni is tender.

  2. Peel and chop the potatoes, then boil them until soft.

  3. In another pot, cook the peas until tender.

  4. In a separate pot, cook the pearl barley according to package instructions, then stir in the raisins.

  5. Prepare the tapioca according to package instructions, adding chopped apples.

  6. Serve the soup with whole-wheat bread and toasted wafers on the side.

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. Barley + wheattop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together185 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Tomato + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  3. Potato + barleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Tomato + wheattop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together468 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  5. Potato + wheattop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together235 recipes

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

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, cream, potato, peas, barley, apple, wheat):

  1. Cherryfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, cream, potato, peas, barley, apple, wheat. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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