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Oatmeal Soup

A soup made with cold cooked oatmeal, onion, celery tops, salt, nut meats, and water or nut milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Oatmeal Soup

Why it works: Onion and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,518 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Oatmeal Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine the cold cooked oatmeal, grated onion, minced celery tops, and coarse sea salt.

  2. Cover and boil slowly for 15 minutes.

  3. Add the chopped nut meats and press the mixture through a sieve.

  4. Return the strained mixture to the pot and bring to a boil.

  5. Add water or nut milk to achieve the desired consistency.

  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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Explore the science

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. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Onion + meattop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,364 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Meat + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,703 recipes

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

  4. Celery + meattop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,880 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Onion + milktop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold cooked oatmeal
Forms the body of the soup and thickens it as it cooks.
Chopped nut meats
Add richness and fat, giving the soup a fuller texture.
Grated onion
Adds savory aroma and a mild sharpness to the base.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, meat, milk):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Celerythe original
  4. Cuminfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, meat, milk. 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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