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To Make a Pint of Broth

A simple broth made by dissolving a concentrated soup in boiling water, optionally flavored with salt, parsley, thyme, and peppercorns.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

To Make a Pint of Broth

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the piece of concentrated soup in a bowl and stir until the soup is melted.

  2. Add a little salt to taste.

  3. For improved flavor, boil parsley, thyme, and black peppercorns in the water before adding the soup.

  4. Your broth is now ready to 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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Walnut + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together865 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Walnut + thymetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together326 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Concentrated soup
Provides the main savory flavor and salt base of the broth.

Swap the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, thyme):

  1. Sagefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, thyme. 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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