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Julienne Soup

A vegetable soup made with diced carrots, turnips, celery, and stock, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 the vegetables

  1. Cut carrots and turnips into quarter-inch dice and slice celery thinly.

  2. Cover vegetables with boiling water, add salt and pepper, and cook until soft.

Finish the soup

  1. In another saucepan, bring stock to a boil and add the cooked vegetables and their water.

  2. Season to taste and serve hot.

Seasonal variation

  1. In spring and summer, substitute asparagus, peas, and string beans, all cut into small uniform pieces.

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.

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. 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. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Carrots
Add natural sweetness and body as they soften in the broth.
Turnips
Contribute a mild, slightly peppery flavor and a tender texture when cooked.
Celery
Adds savory aroma and a slightly firm bite to the soup.

The step that matters

Cut the carrots and turnips into even dice. Pieces of the same size cook at the same rate, so the vegetables become tender together rather than some staying firm while others turn mushy.

Swap the turnip

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

  1. Parsnipfits about as well
  2. Turnipthe original
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Spinachfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, celery, pepper. 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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