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Ceeam Potato Soup

A creamy soup made with cream, milk, mashed potatoes, butter, salt, pepper, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Ceeam Potato Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine cream and milk and bring to a boil.

  2. Add the mashed potatoes to thicken the mixture until it reaches a creamy consistency.

  3. Season with salt, pepper, and butter.

  4. Before serving, stir in the chopped parsley.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, creamy body to the soup.
Milk
Thins the cream base and adds a mild, dairy sweetness.
Potatoes
Starch from the mashed potatoes thickens the liquid into a creamy consistency.
Butter
Adds fat for flavour and a silky mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Adding the mashed potatoes. Potato starch thickens the hot liquid as it absorbs water and swells. Adding them to a boiling liquid while stirring keeps the soup smooth instead of lumpy, so the cook should stir steadily and avoid overthickening.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, milk, potato, pepper, butter):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Celeryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, milk, potato, pepper, butter. 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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