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Orange Soup

A chilled citrus soup made from orange and lemon juice, sweetened with sugar, optionally flavored with sherry, served over ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orange Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Juice the oranges and lemon.

  2. Sweeten the juice slightly with sugar.

  3. Add sherry wine if desired.

Chill and serve

  1. Chill the mixture.

  2. Serve in bowls over chipped ice.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lemon + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Orange + sherrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together823 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Orange + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Lemon + sherrytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,273 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Orange juice
Provides the main liquid, bright flavour and natural sweetness of the soup.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that balances the sweetness of the orange juice and sugar.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the acidity of the citrus juices.
Sherry wine
Adds a light, aromatic depth of flavour to the soup.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, sugar, sherry, wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits about as well
  3. Applefits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, sugar, sherry, wine. 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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