Skip to main content
Main

Raw Peanut Milk Soup

A soup made by simmering raw peanut milk or peanut butter with water, optionally flavored with parsley or onion juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Peanut and parsley work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 108 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Raw Peanut Milk Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine raw peanut milk or peanut butter with water in the inner cup of a double boiler.

  2. Place the inner cup in the outer part of the boiler filled with boiling water.

  3. Cook for 2 hours.

  4. Add a sprig of parsley or onion juice if desired.

  5. Remove the inner cup before serving.

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.

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. Peanut + parsleytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together108 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Raw peanut milk or peanut butter
Provides the main body, richness and peanut flavor of the soup.

“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.

You might also like

Tomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesBrown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesMutton BrothMutton Broth292 recipesYorkshire PuddingYorkshire Pudding264 recipes