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Tomato and Macaroni Soup

A tomato soup with macaroni, simmered together and seasoned with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,034 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Tomato and Macaroni Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the macaroni

  1. Boil the macaroni in boiling water for 20 minutes to 1 hour until tender.

Make the soup

  1. Stew the tomatoes and strain to remove coarse portions.

  2. Add the macaroni to the strained tomatoes.

  3. Season with salt.

  4. Stir in cream or butter if desired.

  5. Boil together for a few minutes.

  6. 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. Tomato + creamtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,034 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Provides the starchy body and bite that thickens the soup as it cooks.
Tomatoes
Supply the main body, acidity and flavour of the soup.
Cream or butter
Adds richness and a softer, rounder mouthfeel to the tomato base.

The step that matters

Boil the macaroni until tender. Pasta cooked in boiling water needs enough time to soften fully; undercooked pieces stay firm and chalky, while the 20 minute to 1 hour range is wide, so checking for tenderness matters.

“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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