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Chantilly Soup

A soup made from young green peas, spring onions, mint, and boiling stock.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and mint are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,137 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Chantilly Soup

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the peas

  1. Boil the peas, spring onions, and mint until the peas are tender.

  2. Remove the mint and onions.

Finish and serve

  1. Press the peas through a sieve.

  2. Pour the boiling stock over the peas.

  3. Serve very hot.

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. Peas + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Peas + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,460 recipes

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

  3. Onion + minttop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,389 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Young green peas
Provide most of the body and the sweet, fresh flavour of the soup once pressed through a sieve.
Spring onions
Add a mild onion aroma to the cooking liquid before being removed.
Mint
Adds a fresh aroma to the peas during boiling before being removed.
Stock
Supplies the liquid and savoury flavour that thins the pressed peas into soup.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, mint):

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, mint. 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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