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Barley Cream for Invalids

A thickened veal and barley soup served in small portions for invalids.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and barley work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 162 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Barley Cream for Invalids

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Boil veal and pearl barley in 1 quart of water.

  2. Cook until the mixture passes through a fine sieve and thickens to the consistency of cream.

  3. Add salt to taste.

Serve

  1. Serve a small quantity two or three times a day.

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. Veal + barleytop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together162 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Breaks down during long simmering, releasing collagen that gives the soup body and a rich mouthfeel.
Pearl barley
Its starch swells and breaks down as it cooks, thickening the liquid and giving it a creamy texture.

The step that matters

Cooking until it passes through a fine sieve. Cooking must be long enough for the veal and barley to break down fully so the mixture strains smoothly. Stopping too early leaves it grainy and too thin, while overcooking can make it stick and thicken too much.

“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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