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Macaroni Clear Soup

A clear soup made with macaroni and chicken or veal broth, served with grated cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,936 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Macaroni Clear Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break the macaroni into short pieces.

  2. Parboil the macaroni in boiling water for 3 minutes, then drain.

Make the soup

  1. In a saucepan, bring the chicken or veal broth to a boil.

  2. Add the macaroni to the broth and simmer gently until fully cooked, skimming if necessary.

  3. Serve with grated cheese 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. Chicken + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,936 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the body of the soup and absorbs some broth as it cooks.
Chicken or veal broth
Provides the liquid base and most of the savory flavor of the soup.

The step that matters

Simmer the macaroni gently. A hard boil breaks up the pasta and clouds the broth. A gentle simmer keeps the pieces intact and the soup clear, and skimming removes foam that would otherwise cloud it.

“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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