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A broth-based soup with tomatoes, cabbage, oatmeal, butter, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare 150 c.c. of broth.

  2. Melt 25 g of butter in a pan.

  3. Add 100 g of chopped tomatoes and cook until soft.

  4. Toss in shredded cabbage and cook until tender.

  5. Prepare 180 g of special oatmeal according to package instructions.

Serve

  1. Serve with 5 g of butter and cream on the side.

  2. Enjoy with tea or coffee.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Tomato + teatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together95 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + cabbagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together333 recipes

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

  4. Cabbage + teatop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20 recipes

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

  5. Butter + teatop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Soften and add acidity and sweetness to the soup base.
Cabbage
Adds bulk and a tender, mildly sweet vegetable texture to the soup.
Special oatmeal
Thickens the soup and gives it a hearty, creamy body.
Butter
Adds fat and rich flavour to the pan before the vegetables cook.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, tomato, cream, tea):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, tomato, cream, tea. 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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