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Fresh Green Pea Soup

A soup made from green peas, onion or celery, milk, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,460 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Fresh Green Pea Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Hull the desired quantity of green peas.

  2. Grind the peas very fine in a vegetable mill.

  3. Add a trace of celery or onion for flavor.

  4. Mix in enough rich milk to achieve a soup-like consistency.

Heat and serve

  1. Warm the mixture to about 145°F to 150°F.

  2. Add salt to taste and serve.

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. Peas + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,460 recipes

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

  2. Peas + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,309 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Onion + milktop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peas
Form the main body of the soup, giving its bulk, flavor and green color.
Milk
Adds richness and moisture, loosening the ground peas into a soup-like consistency.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, milk):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Cauliflowerfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, 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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