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Julienne Soup

A clear soup with julienned carrots, turnips, celery, onions, and ginger, seasoned with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Julienne Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the carrots and turnips, then cut them into strips.

  2. Chop the celery, onions, and ginger into small pieces.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the vegetables until cooked.

  2. Add the cooked vegetables to the clear soup and season with salt to taste.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Turnip + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,377 recipes

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

  5. Turnip + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Carrots
Add colour, body, and a mild sweetness once cooked.
Turnips
Add a mild, slightly peppery flavour and a firm texture.
Celery
Adds a fresh, savoury aroma that forms the base flavour of the soup.
Onions
Add savoury depth and aroma as they soften in the broth.
Ginger
Adds a sharp, warming aroma to the clear soup.
Clear soup
Serves as the flavourful liquid base that carries the vegetables.

The step that matters

Boil the vegetables until just cooked. Boiling too long softens the cut strips until they lose their shape and firmness, blurring the clean julienne look and dulling their texture in the finished soup.

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, celery, onion):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, celery, 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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