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Corn Soup with Tomatoes

A tomato and corn soup made with chicken stock, garlic, onion, pepper, and seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Corn Soup with Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and quarter the tomatoes, then scrape out all the seeds.

Make the soup

  1. In a large pot, combine the tomatoes, corn, pepper, onion, garlic, and chicken stock.

  2. Place the pot on the stove and bring to a boil.

  3. Cook rapidly for 5 minutes.

  4. Reduce the heat and simmer until the vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes.

  5. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Serve

  1. Serve with croutons.

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. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Corn + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 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

Green corn
Adds sweetness and body, thickening the soup as its starch cooks into the stock.
Chicken stock
Forms the liquid base that carries the flavour of the other ingredients.
Tomatoes
Contribute acidity, colour and moisture to the soup.
Garlic
Adds aromatic pungency that mellows as the soup simmers.

The step that matters

Simmer until the vegetables are tender. Simmering long enough softens the vegetables fully and lets their flavours blend into the stock. Stopping early leaves the soup raw-tasting and grainy.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, chicken, tomato, pepper, onion):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, chicken, tomato, pepper, onion. 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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