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Canned Pea Soup

A soup made from canned peas, nut butter, water, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,887 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Canned Pea Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peas

  1. Rub the can of peas through a colander to remove the skins.

Make the emulsion

  1. Add water to the nut butter to form an emulsion.

  2. Mix the emulsion with the sifted peas.

Thin and serve

  1. Add enough additional water to achieve the desired soup consistency.

  2. Season with salt and serve.

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 + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Peas
Form the main body and bulk of the soup, carrying most of its flavour.
Nut butter
Adds fat that helps water and pea purée combine smoothly, giving a richer, creamier texture.

The step that matters

Forming the emulsion. Nut butter is thick and oily, so water must be added gradually and stirred in well. Adding it all at once can leave the fat separated instead of forming a smooth emulsion, which makes the soup feel greasy or grainy.

“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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