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A chicken stock soup with pickles, Brussels sprouts, peas, tomatoes, lettuce, served with apple, bread, butter, coffee, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Dill and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Stock Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine stock and chicken in a pot.

  2. Bring to a simmer.

  3. Add dill pickle, Brussels sprouts, French peas, tomatoes, and lettuce.

  4. Cook until vegetables are tender.

  5. Stir in olive oil and lemon juice.

  6. Serve hot with slices of raw apple, bread, and butter on the side.

  7. Enjoy with coffee and cream.

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. Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  3. Dill + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

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

  4. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the protein and savory flavor that the stock carries.
Brussels sprouts
Add bulk and a slightly bitter, earthy flavor as they soften.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and moisture, rounding out the broth.
Olive oil
Adds fat, carrying flavor and giving the broth a richer mouthfeel.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the soup and balances richness.

Swap the brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, dill, peas, tomato, lettuce, olive, lemon):

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, dill, peas, tomato, lettuce, olive, lemon. 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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