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Noodles for Soup

Hand‑made noodles formed from eggs, salt, and flour, boiled in soup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Noodles for Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Beat the eggs and salt thoroughly.

  2. Add enough flour to form a dough.

  3. Roll the dough thin and sprinkle the top with flour.

Shape the noodles

  1. Starting at one edge, roll the dough into a long roll.

  2. Cut the roll into fine strips and sprinkle flour on each strip.

  3. Shake off excess flour to straighten the noodles.

  4. Lay the noodles on a board to dry.

Cook

  1. When ready, boil the noodles in soup for 20 minutes.

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. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the flour into a dough and add richness and structure to the noodles.
Flour
Forms the dough's structure, giving the noodles body when rolled and cooked.

The step that matters

Rolling the dough thin. Thin dough cooks through quickly in the soup and keeps the noodles tender rather than dense and chewy. Dusting the surface with flour stops it sticking while rolling.

“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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