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Cream of Asparagus Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Cream of Asparagus Soup

Why it works: Radish and watercress share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cream of Asparagus Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the cream in a saucepan.

  2. Add the roast beef and simmer until heated through.

  3. In a separate pan, broil the onions until golden.

  4. Slice the radishes and prepare the watercress salad.

  5. Drizzle olive oil over the salad.

  6. Serve the soup topped with whipped cream.

  7. Enjoy with a bran muffin and ripe olives.

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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Explore the science

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. Radish + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  3. Watercress + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together684 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

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

  5. Onion + watercresstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together533 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, beef, onion, watercress, olive):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, beef, onion, watercress, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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