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Mulligatawny Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Mulligatawny Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut up the chicken or rabbit and place it with the veal, 1 onion, half the carrot, cloves, and parsley into the cold water.

  2. Cook slowly until the chicken is nearly done, then remove the chicken and let the veal simmer until fully cooked.

  3. In a separate pan, fry the remaining onion, the other half of the carrot, and the celery in butter until browned.

  4. Add the flour to the pan and cook for 2 minutes, then stir in the curry and the trimmed chicken pieces.

  5. Pour in the veal broth and cook gently for 1 hour.

  6. Season with salt, pepper, and a little juice of lemon or mango pickle.

  7. Skim, strain, and serve with boiled rice.

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. Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, butter, flour, onion, parsley, carrot, celery):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, butter, flour, onion, parsley, carrot, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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