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Vegetable Soup, with Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and sorrel match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 247 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vegetable Soup, with Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the cabbage, lettuce, chervil, white beet leaves, celery, leeks, sorrel, and carrot finely.

  2. Add the sliced cucumbers and young peas or asparagus.

  3. Melt the butter in a pot and stew the vegetables gently until tender.

  4. Add the broth and bring to a boil.

  5. Serve 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. Chervil + sorreltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together247 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lettuce + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together396 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lettuce + sorreltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together317 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Leek + sorreltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together112 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Chervil + leektop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, chervil, celery, leek, sorrel, carrot, cucumber):

  1. Endivefits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, chervil, celery, leek, sorrel, carrot, cucumber. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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